As requested on the mailing list, this is a sample file I recorded using mythtv. It plays correctly in the patched Gentoo version of MPlayer, but not in the vanilla version. Below is the output of the failed attempt to play it in an unpatched version. The low quality is because of my $18 tv card, not anything wrong when playing it.:-) -Ben nemebe01@luther.edu MPlayer 1.0pre7-3.3.5-20050130 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon MP/XP/XP-M Barton (Family: 6, Stepping: 0) Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0 Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE CommandLine: '-v' 'mythtvexample.nuv' init_freetype get_path('font/font.desc') -> '/home/cybertron/.mplayer/font/font.desc' font: can't open file: /home/cybertron/.mplayer/font/font.desc font: can't open file: /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc Using MMX (with tiny bit MMX2) Optimized OnScreenDisplay Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startup scripts. Using nanosleep() timing get_path('input.conf') -> '/home/cybertron/.mplayer/input.conf' Can't open input config file /home/cybertron/.mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory Can't open input config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config get_path('mythtvexample.nuv.conf') -> '/home/cybertron/.mplayer/mythtvexample.nuv.conf' Playing mythtvexample.nuv. [file] File size is 5242880 bytes STREAM: [file] mythtvexample.nuv STREAM: Description: File STREAM: Author: Albeu STREAM: Comment: based on the code from ??? (probably Arpi) Checking for YUV4MPEG2 ASF_check: not ASF guid! Checking for Nullsoft Streaming Video Checking for NuppelVideo Checking for REAL Checking for SMJPEG Searching demuxer type for filename mythtvexample.nuv ext: .nuv Checking for MOV Checking for VIVO header block 1 size: 121 AVS: avs_check_file - attempting to open file mythtvexample.nuv AVS: File is too big, aborting... Checking for PVA Checking for MPEG-TS... TRIED UP TO POSITION 67240, FOUND 47, packet_size= 0, SEEMS A TS? 0 Checking for LMLM4 Stream Format Invalid packet in LMLM4 stream: ch=19833 size=1414944353 LMLM4 Stream Format not found sync_mpeg_ps: seems to be MP3 stream... MPEG Stream reached EOF ds_fill_buffer: EOF reached (stream: video) MPEG packet stats: p100: 2 p101: 0 p1B6: 10 p12x: 1 sli: 0 a: 0 b: 0 c: 0 idr: 0 sps: 0 pps: 0 PES: 0 MP3: 105 Not MPEG System Stream format... (maybe Transport Stream?) ==> Found video stream: 0 TiVo file format detected. ds_fill_buffer: EOF reached (stream: audio) MPEG: No audio stream found -> no sound. Searching for sequence header... ds_fill_buffer: EOF reached (stream: video) NONE :( MPEG: FATAL: EOF while searching for sequence header. Video: Cannot read properties. No stream found. vo: x11 uninit called but X11 not inited.. Exiting... (End of file)