What is the magic formula for getting mplayer to play the video portion of realmedia files? My /usr/local/lib/win32 is a soft link to codecs, which contains acelpdec.ax LCODCCMW2E.dll vid_3ivX.xa alf2cd.acm lhacm.acm ViVD2.dll aslcodec_dshow.dll lsvxdec.dll vivog723.acm atrac3.acm m3jp2k32.dll voxmsdec.ax atrc.so.6.0 mi-sc4.acm vp4vfw.dll AvidQTAVUICodec.qtx msh261.drv vp6vfw.dll BeHereiVideo.qtx msms001.vwp vp7vfw.dll CLRVIDDC.DLL msscds32.ax vssh264core.dll clrviddd.dll nsrt2432.acm vssh264dec.dll cook.so qpeg32.dll vssh264.dll CtWbJpg.DLL qtmlClient.dll vsshdsd.dll DECVW_32.DLL QuickTimeEssentials.qtx vsslight.dll drvc.so QuickTimeInternetExtras.qtx vsswlt.dll dspr.so.6.0 QuickTime.qts wma9dmod.dll iac25_32.ax README wmadmod.dll icmw_32.dll rt32dcmp.dll wmsdmod.dll imc32.acm sipr.so.6.0 wmspdmod.dll ir41_32.dll tokf.so.6.0 wmv9dmod.dll ir50_32.dll tokr.so.6.0 wmvadvd.dll ivvideo.dll tvqdec.dll wmvdmod.dll jp2avi.dll VDODEC32.dll wnvwinx.dll LCMW2.dll vdowave.drv wvc1dmod.dll Even on things it will play, e.g. wmv files, it won't give me a control panel. I'm running FC6. mplayer --version MPlayer SVN-r23545 rpm.livna.org (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz (Family: 15, Model: 2, Stepping: 9) CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled with runtime CPU detection. Unknown option on the command line: --version Error parsing option on the command line: --version -- Michael hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called Hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called Software."