I don't really have experience with this, I have several problems with frame- buffer myself (fbtv being black and white only) but I did have a quick idea while reading your message. Mplayer has svgalib output, which is very fast. And svgalib has framebuffer support. Perhaps you can use this? I believe you set svgalib chipset as fbdev. I'm not sure if svgalib support for fb is stable 1.4.x or development 1.9.x. -Erik Mon, 24 Dec 2001 00:57:47 -0500 - Trevor Boicey > Ok, here's a game for the list, it's a whole lot of > little problems that I need a solution for maybe one > or two of them. I just keep trying to sidestep one problem > with an equally useful solution and instead find a new > problem.