Hello, I just stumbled on the avifile library on freshmeat (http://divx.euro.ru/). It's a library that loads the native Windows decoders (with some code from Wine and Twin). IIRC AVI support in Wine is still in the "use the native libs" state. Maybe we can use some of the code of avifile? (haven't really looked at it though). ciao Jörg -- Joerg Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I found out that "pro" means "instead of" (as in proconsul). Now I know what proactive means.