Hello, I see the xawtv comes with 'cc' program in contrib directory. it does neat job decoding closed captions. you just run following in xterminal cc I also see the 'xawtv-remote' command lets me display on-screen text on bottom of screen incely. for example. xawtv-remote -d pepsi:0.0 vtx blah blah blah now the question is what would be the right way to integrate those two so that I can have on screen closed captions, what's especially usefull for full-screen programs... -- Adam http://www.eax.com The Supreme Headquarters of the 32 bit registers