hi all, Now I am able to play the files on SuSE 9.1 Pro using Mplayer. I had to scp the files from a windows machine to my SuSE and changed the file permissions to -rwxr-xr-x. And then I am able to play the files with Mplayer. It would be interesting to note exactly why this has been done. The file was a read only. When I opened it on a windows machine and tried to change the read only attribute, it didn't allow me to do it. So I just scp'd it to my linux machine and in the scp window itself I changed the permissions on the linux machine to -rwxr-xr-x came to my linux machine and then played it with Mplayer and then it played fine. I think this a very clumsy way of getting the file to play. If anyone knows a workaround, so that I don't need to touch the Windows machine, let me know. Regards, Chaitanya. Discover Yahoo! Use Yahoo! to plan a weekend, have fun online and more. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/