Hi Geoff, On my way out but here's my latest: [root@stepdaddy studio]# rpm -qa |grep ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel-0.4.9-7_cvs20050418.rhfc3.at ffmpeg-0.4.9-7_cvs20050418.rhfc3.at imlib-devel-1.9.13-21 imlib-1.9.13-21 imlib2-1.2.0-1.rhfc3.ccrma imlib2-devel-1.2.0-1.rhfc3.ccrma With Ardour in sync to jack and as timebase master. Are you syncing with Ardour or another app? I gave muse a quick try last nite but had the same results. Here's xjadeo starting up: [studio@stepdaddy xjadeo]$ xjadeo vts-test.avi Input #0, avi, from 'vts-test.avi': Duration: 00:06:31.8, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 8734 kb/s Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg4, 720x480, 29.97 fps original frame rate: nan length in seconds: 429497 total frames: -2147483648 Maybe I'll try to rebuild xjadeo with the new libs. That shouldn't make any difference though because we just link to the libs. Right? And it didn't make any difference. I am able to play the above file with mplayer. OK, gotta run sound for a childrens theatre/choir production. Talk to you soon, ron --- Geoff Beasley <songshop(a)bizmedia.com.au> wrote: __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com