here is a new format i came across that i cant figure out seems to be Emblaze Video format, not an avi container, or not easily decoded into one. http://www.emblaze.com/serve/products/pc_players.asp they only provide a java player. figure this one or not, just a heads up... porno seems to find the tech first and pioneer it. here is a sample html, just make it html and load it in yah browser... below mplayer -v output C:\Documents and Settings\resu\Desktop>mplayer -v clip01570.KQE MPlayer dev-CVS-040112-09:19-3.3.1 (C) 2000-2003 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel Pentium MMX P55C 200.5 MHz (Family: 5, Stepping: 3) Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0 Compiled with Runtime CPU Detection - WARNING - this is not optimal! To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection. Reading config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: No such file or directo ry Reading config file C:/programs/mplayer/mplayer/config Reading C:/programs/mplayer/mplayer/codecs.conf: 61 audio & 171 video codecs CommandLine: '-v' 'clip01570.KQE' get_path('font/font.desc') -> 'C:/programs/mplayer/mplayer/font/font.desc' font: can't open file: C:/programs/mplayer/mplayer/font/font.desc font: can't open file: /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc Using MMX Optimized OnScreenDisplay Using usleep() timing get_path('input.conf') -> 'C:/programs/mplayer/mplayer/input.conf' Parsing input config file C:/programs/mplayer/mplayer/input.conf Input config file C:/programs/mplayer/mplayer/input.conf parsed: 53 binds get_path('clip01570.KQE.conf') -> 'C:/programs/mplayer/mplayer/clip01570.KQE.con f' Playing clip01570.KQE. WINSOCK2 init: 0 [file] File size is 6579081 bytes STREAM: [file] clip01570.KQE STREAM: Description: File STREAM: Author: Albeu STREAM: Comment: based on the code from ??? (probably Arpi) Checking for YUV4MPEG2 DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 00EBDDA8 ASF_check: not ASF guid! DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 00EBDDA8 Checking for NuppelVideo DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 00EBDDA8 Checking for REAL DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 00EBDDA8 Checking for SMJPEG DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 00EBDDA8 DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 01F46008 DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 01F46008 Searching demuxer type for filename clip01570.KQE ext: .KQE Checking for MOV DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 01F46008 Checking for VIVO header block 1 size: 69 DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 01F46008 DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 01F46008 DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 01F46008 DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 01F46008 DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 01F46008 DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 01F46008 Checking for PVA DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 01F46008 Checking for MPEG-TS... TRIED UP TO POSITION 69037, FOUND 0, packet_size= 71, SEEMS A TS? 0 DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 01F46008 Checking for LMLM4 Stream Format Invalid packet in LMLM4 stream: ch=18245 size=1229870141 LMLM4 Stream Format not found DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 01F46008 MPEG Stream reached EOF ds_fill_buffer: EOF reached (stream: video) MPEG packet stats: p100: 0 p101: 0 p1B6: 0 p12x: 0 sli: 0 a: 0 b: 0 c: 0 idr: 0 sps: 0 pps: 0 PES: 0 MP3: 1479 Not MPEG System Stream format... (maybe Transport Stream?) DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 01F46008 ==> Found audio stream: 0 DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 01F46008 DEMUXER: freeing sh_audio at 01F49140 ==> Found video stream: 0 ds_fill_buffer: EOF reached (stream: video) DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 01F46008 DEMUXER: freeing sh_video at 01F491F8 WINSOCK2 uninit Exiting... (End of file)