Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > The usual cure for this is to add the -playlist option: > > mplayer -playlist <file_to_play> > > You do NOT need avisynth.dll. The -playlist option works great! Now mplayer can play the npr radio streams... yay! Thanks for all those who replied. raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/