This is interesting. I've had FC2 for less than a week and this is the second thing to randomly go haywire. Earlier today I could use xine to watch videos. Now, it thinks it is playing videos, but all I can see is a plain black square where there should be some video. No error output on the commandline. Mplayer and gstreamer are giving me the same affects. Audio is still working great on the mpgs, but the video ain't. If anyone has any ideas I would love to try them out. I've tried refreshing the rpms. I also tried deleting the .xine and .mplayer directories in my home directory to see if that might be it. Then out of curiousity, I ran mplayer as root. Thanks --andy