Hi. > did you try the -benchmark option? Sure, makes no difference: time mplayer -benchmark -ao pcm -aofile audio.wav -vo null -vc null \ firefly.\(1x04\).jaynestown.nbs.sharereactor.mpg real 7m41.393s user 0m0.340s sys 0m0.260s There simply must be some major difference deep inside mplayer... -- ==> Ciao, Mosu (Moritz Bunkus)