Dear Mplayer gurus, I am having trouble. I cannot play this ra file with mplayer. It works with realplayer I use the latest mplayer from cvs compiled with the essentials codecs. I get sound of water running and not the lecture. file works fine with realplayer and i get a useful wav file with vsound -f out.wav realplay gittin_13.ra Here is my system information. distribution debian sid mlaks@RAMBAM:~$ uname -a Linux RAMBAM 2.6.9-1-386 #1 Tue Nov 16 17:11:01 JST 2004 i686 GNU/Lin mlaks@RAMBAM:~$ ls -l /lib/libc[.-]* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1244688 2005-04-16 08:10 /lib/libc-2.3.2.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2005-04-26 00:07 /lib/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.3.2.so mlaks@RAMBAM:~$ gcc -v Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/3.3.5/specs Configured with: ../src/configure -v --enable-languages=c,c++,java,f77,pascal,objc,ada,treelang --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info--with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/3.3 --enable-shared --enable-__cxa_atexit --with-system-zlib --enable-nls --without-included-gettext --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-debug --enable-java-gc=boehm --enable-java-awt=xlib --enable-objc-gci486-linux Thread model: posix gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-12) mlaks@RAMBAM:~$ mlaks@RAMBAM:~$ ld -v GNU ld version 2.15 laks@RAMBAM:~$ as --version GNU assembler 2.15 Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License. This program has absolutely no warranty. This assembler was configured for a target of `i386-linux'. mlaks@RAMBAM:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 2 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz stepping : 7 cpu MHz : 2393.298 cache size : 512 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmovpat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe cid bogomips : 4734.97 0000:04:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 1380 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping+ SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- SERR- 0000:04:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: Yamaha Corporation YMF-724F [DS-1 Audio Controller] (rev 03) Subsystem: Yamaha Corporation DS-XG PCI Audio CODEC Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- SERR-