Dear All, I am pleased that I was able to use acidgrip and rip a dvd to avi then to vcd using kavi2svcd. It turned out well then I was even able to play it on my mplayer with Suse 8.2 . Then for no apparent reason I tried playing yesterday and today and it plays sound only and no video. It was playing great the day before and I made no changes with my mplayer to affect this. I have an athlon 1400+ xp with 512 megs of memory and everything has played wonderfully on my mplayer 1.0pred3-3.3 until now. I have a home video that I turned into vcd and that plays fine. There is no sound in it which is fine since my home video has no sound. When the movie vcd that I played the other day was playing just fine I was totally pleased with the results. I am a newbie at all of this and barely know anything about tweaking mplayer or making vcds even though my vcds are not bad so far. My card is a S3 Savage 4, vesa monitor 1024x768 16 bit color. Again this was working well the other day and not now for no apparent reason. Any suggestions or help will be great. I have combed through the mplayer site and forums, but so far have not understood everything that well but working on it. Thanks, Marcia