Many list members may have already seen this but for the 9.1 and 9.2 newbies this hint I stumbled across earlier this evening really takes the pain out of the Mplayer setup! It came from this site and was written by Pcghost http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=202518&perpage=15&pagenumber=2 I have added notes where I think they may be helpful. (Note 1: I observed in 9.2 that the labels are slightly different than in the instructions but it is still obvious which you should choose.) (Note 2: Unless you run this in Root/Admin you will be prompted for the Root/Admin password at one step, I forget precisely where.) Open the control center. Click YaST modules Click Software Click Change Installation Source Click Add Select http Put packman.iu-bremen.de in the site field Put suse/9.1 in the path field (Note 3: Substitute 9.2 as appropriate) (Note 4: Be sure not to add the "http://" because that is done automatically, also, do not add any "/" other than the one specified or you will get doubles.) Click OK (Note 5: I think this is "Finish" rather than "OK".) Now simply click on Install and Remove Software and the entire packman library is now listed. Doing this turns an Mplayer installation into a 10 second affair. Additionally, packman has binaries for just about everything else you could possibly want. (Note 6: In my 9.2 setup I had to run "Mplayer" manually from Run Command, then it was recognized.) SETTING MPLAYER AS DEFAULT: If you want Mplayer to be the default for .mov and other video files you will need to change the setting, otherwise Kaffine will run and fail. Control Center KDE Video Click on the video file type, then go to the right and click Move Up to make Mplayer the first choice. Hope this helps others as much as it did me! -- Thanks! & 73, doc kd4e West Central Florida 100% Linux. Suse 9.1 Drake, Hallicrafters, Heathkit, TenTec, Yaesu Radio Life: http://www.gospelcom.net/twr/ Linux-Incompatible hardware is defective! "...a plan is not a litany of complaints." USA Pres. Election 2004: http://www.rnc.org/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~