once upon a time roi wrote oh xmms didn t work for me also i used mpgNUMBER i tought its something from me nope this is normal as red hat removed all mpNUMBER support from NUMBER NUMBER because of patent and royalty issues on URL you can find the xmms mpNUMBER plugin as i said but also libmad lame mpNUMBER encoder and soon mpgNUMBER as i often used it myself many other players can also play mpNUMBER files like alsaplayer xine mplayer like mplayer not working also and gives black screen this is not normal though try mplayer vo help then try usinf various output methods to see if some do work or not matthias clean custom red hat linux rpm packages URL red hat linux release NUMBER NUMBER valhalla running linux kernel NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBERacpi load NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER _______________________________________________ rpm list mailing list rpm list URL URL 