Hello, as discussed in thread "mplayer10pre1/2 audio output" the blurry mp3 output under SuSE9 / gcc3.3.1 seems a bug in this version of gcc affecting mp3lib. I found compiling MPlayer with mad support (SuSE Packages mad, mad-devel) and using -ac mad for movies with mp3 sound to be a workarround. -- Bye, Michael Leun