On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 16:21:55 +0200 Marco Trudel <mtrudel at gmx.ch> wrote: > With other videos, mplayer exits withhout doing anything or shows only > kind of noise instead of a video... By "noise" you probably mean macroblocks. You have to wait a few seconds until mplayer hits the next keyframe, before it can output a coherent picture.