Hi, Well, I finally installed mplayer because everybody told me it was a lot, a lot, a lot better than Aviplay. The installation (version 0.60) went all right (on SuSE 7.2 Intel Pentium III 640Mhz). I make a test /cdrom/my_file.avi and ... 1) the playing of the movie is always interrupted (sound and image) 2) impossible to increase the image size Follows all the "bla-bla". With Aviplay I have a better quality (zoom 2x and fluid sound and image) Thus what's wrong? Thank you for possible reason of this problem Alain MPlayer 0.60-2.95.3 (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS!) CPU vendor name: GenuineIntel max cpuid level: 2 CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville (Type: 6, Stepping: 6) Testing OS support for SSE... yes. Testing OS support for SSE unmasked exceptions... yes. Tests of OS support for SSE passed. CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0 Compiled for x86 CPU with features: MMX MMX2 SSE Reading /home/alain/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open '/home/alain/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory Reading /usr/local/share/mplayer/codecs.conf: 26 audio & 70 video codecs font: can't open file: /home/alain/.mplayer/font/font.desc font: can't open file: /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc Linux RTC init: open: Permission denied Using usleep() timing Playing mylene_farmer.avi Not an URL! Detected AVI file format! MainAVIHeader.dwFlags: (272) HAS_INDEX IS_INTERLEAVED VIDEO: [DIV3] 448x252 24bpp 25.00 fps 601.8 kbps (73.5 kbyte/s) [V] filefmt:3 fourcc:0x33564944 size:448x252 fps:25.00 ftime:=0.0400 Detected audio codec: [mp3] drv:1 (MPEG layer-2, layer-3) mp3lib: Processor ID: 686 mp3lib: Using Pentium-MMX optimized decore. AUDIO: srate=44100 chans=2 bps=2 sfmt=0x10 ratio: 16000->176400 Detected video codec: [divxds] drv:4 prio:0 (DivX ;-) (MS MPEG-4 v3)) vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 16 and 16 bits/pixel (":0.0" => local display) fs seg 0x40018000 Loading DLL: 'divx_c32.ax' Using DirectShow codec: divx_c32.ax Decoder is capable of YUV output ( flags 0x9) Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied. VO: [x11] 448x252 => 448x252 BGR 16-bit Sharing memory. AO: [oss] 44100Hz Stereo Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) ao2: 44100 Hz 2 chans Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) audio_setup: sample format: Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) (requested: Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian)) audio_setup: using 2 channels (requested: 2) audio_setup: using 44100 Hz samplerate (requested: 44100) audio_setup: frags: 2/2 (65536 bytes/frag) free: 131072 Start playing... A:3731.6 V:3731.0 A-V: 0.689 ct: 0.172 93275/93275 19% 7% 1.9% 344 0 0% ************************************************ **** Your system is too SLOW to play this! **** ************************************************ !!! Possible reasons, problems, workaround: - Most common: broken/buggy _audio_ driver. workaround: try -ao sdl or use ALSA 0.5 or oss emulation of ALSA 0.9. read DOCS/sound.html for more tipps! - Slow video output. try different -vo driver (for list: -vo help) or try with -framedrop ! Read DOCS/video.html for video tuning/speedup tipps. - Slow cpu. don't try to playback big dvd/divx on slow cpu! try -hardframedrop - Broken file. try various combinations of these: -nobps -ni -mc 0 -forceidx If none of these apply, then read DOCS/bugreports.html !