Greetings: Recently I added a DVD drive to my system. My aging RH 7.2 recognized the drive with no trouble, and after I linked /dev/cdrom1 to /dev/dvd MPlayer handled a DVD with not much trouble. Video performance was sluggish though, and worse, I had no audio. So I dug into the MPlayer docs (they're good!) and discovered lots about improving the video performance, but I still couldn't get a peep out of the movies. The drive's analog audio output is connected to the second card (a PCI128) in my machine, yet no matter what I did with the mixer I got no sound. The card output was routed out to a Bose sound system. Here's where the weirdness starts: While fiddling around with things I discovered that I did in fact have audio. It's coming out of my SBLive, not my PCI128 ! Now how does that happen ?? The drive is physically connected to the PCI128, *not* the SBLive, yet the audio is indeed coming from the SBLive. Can someone explain how this is possible ? Do the cards share a codec, and does that matter ? Is DVD audio handled differently than CD audio ? I'm very happy with my new drive and with MPlayer, and I'm glad to have good sound, but what the hey ?! Btw, MPlayer rocks, even under my "adverse" conditions, i.e., I compiled it with GCC 2.96 and am using an nVidia GForce2 video card. Ha, it all works great ! Best regards, == Dave Phillips The Book Of Linux Music & Sound at http://www.nostarch.com/lms.htm The Linux Soundapps Site at http://linux-sound.org