<pre>> An example URL with a fully updated system, livna, extras and "xine-non-free" > stuff installed: <a rel="nofollow" href="rtsp://srv1.mel.apstream.net/encoder/rrrlive.rm">> rtsp://srv1.mel.apstream.net/encoder/rrrlive.rm </a> </pre>It played fine for me with mplayer:) <pre>> Then I went to > freshrpms manually dnloading the ffmpeg-0.4.9-0.8.20070109.fc6.i386.rpm > and the devel and libpostproc rpms too. The separate libavcodec rpm > conflicts with either the devel or libpostproc, I ferget. I also removed > all xine rpms and re-installed the 1.1.4-1 series from Freshrpms</pre>Linux video applications are strongly based on ffmpeg. This is why Matthias uses an embedded ffmepg for xine-lib-moles and vlc: <a href="http://lists.freshrpms.net/pipermail/freshrpms-list/2007-February/014499.html">http://lists.freshrpms.net/pipermail/freshrpms-list/2007-February/014499.html</a> This is the main reason for the robustness of freshrpms versions of xine/vlc. Applications making use of a lot of shared libraries are prone to break often, when one of them is updated and become incompatible. Since Fedora is not providing static libraries anymore, the problem has to be dealt with by whom provide the application, and an extra care has to be taken while checking all dependencies. This is why I choose my repos based on the person who is responsible for them. -- Paulo Roma Cavalcanti LCG - UFRJ