Hi, ANother thing: how do I make sure I am using libmad to play off mp3 ? I see mplayer saying in stead: Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3 By ear I think what I hear is not libmad :( Aha, while ./configuring I saw: Checking for mad support ... yes So how do I explicitly choose mp3 decoder? thanks Dominique