as posted on the mailing list and requested by Arpi i had some problems playing a file: CPU vendor name: AuthenticAMD max cpuid level: 1 CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Duron SF Spitfire (Type: 6, Stepping: 1) extended cpuid-level: 6 Reading /home/mud/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open '/home/mud/.mplayer/codecs.c\ onf': Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden ReLinux RTC init: open: Keine Berechtigung get_path('input.conf') -> '/home/mud/.mplayer/input.conf' Setting up lirc support... mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: Verbindungsaufbau abgelehnt Failed opening lirc support! You won't be able to use your remote control Playing strangefile.avi File size is 28898262 bytes Detected AVI file format! ==> Found video stream: 0 found 'bih', 40 bytes of 40 ==> Found audio stream: 1 found 'wf', 20 bytes of 20 Broken chunk? chunksize=3744 (id=JUNK) Found movie at 0x1000 - 0x1B5ADE8 Reading INDEX block, 13387 chunks for 12170 frames Broken chunk? chunksize=0 (id=idx1) Reading INDEX block, 13387 chunks for 12170 frames AVI index offset: 0xFFC (movi=0x1000 idx0=0x4 idx1=0x1192) Auto-selected AVI audio ID = 1 Auto-selected AVI video ID = 0 AVI: Searching for audio stream (id:1) AVI video length=28488726 VIDEO: [MPG4] 320x240 24bpp 10.00 fps 187.3 kbps (22.9 kbyte/s) [V] filefmt:3 fourcc:0x3447504D size:320x240 fps:10.00 ftime:=0.1000 get_path('sub/') -> '/home/mud/.mplayer/sub/' Detected audio codec: [msgsmacm] drv:4 (MS GSM) Initializing audio codec... ======= Win32 (ACM) AUDIO Codec init ======= get_path('registry') -> '/home/mud/.mplayer/registry' get_path('registry') -> '/home/mud/.mplayer/registry' get_path('registry') -> '/home/mud/.mplayer/registry' ACM_Decoder: Unappropriate audio format Could not load/initialize Win32/ACM AUDIO codec (missing DLL file?) Couldn't initialize audio codec! -> nosound Detected video codec: [mpeg4ds] drv:4 prio:0 (Microsoft MPEG-4 v1/v2) get_path('registry') -> '/home/mud/.mplayer/registry' VDec: vo config request - 320 x 240, Packed YUY2 Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied. video_out->init(320x240->320x240,flags=0,'MPlayer',0x32595559) INFO: Win32/DShow video codec init OK! INFO: Video OUT driver init OK! Audio: no sound!!! Freeing 0 unused audio chunks Start playing... took a look at /usr/local/share/mplayer/codecs.conf: (lines 990-997) audiocodec msgsmacm info "MS GSM" status working format 0x31 format 0x32 driver acm dll "msnaudio.acm" ; dll "msgsm32.acm" and removed the ";" before dll "msgsm32.acm" and playing worked fine