Le Fri, 5 May 2006 10:44:59 +0200, Alfons Adriaensen <fons.adriaensen(a)alcatelaleniaspace.com> a écrit : I suppose I am not the best one to respond to that question. I mainly use xmms to play audio. http://www.xmms.org/ It can play almost anything with a plugin system. It can use Alsa, OSS, jack and other sound servers. It is a lot of plugins. As exemple, it is even a mplayer plugin that can play every format, even video, that mplayer can play. (Not sure if it is an official xmms plugin, but it work fine. http://xmmsmplayer.sourceforge.net/ ) It is a ladspa plugin too: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~njl98r/code/audio/ Mplayer alone or as xmms plugin will do a great job with many sound formats. I believe at it will be superior to many other softwares, in regard to sound quality, to play audio-DVD. If you have a compilation where the originals are coming from different sources, you will get no jump in the sound when jumping from a track to another track, and that even if the sound format is not the same. Mplayer will just do the work and get the most of the sound server. Best, Dominique