> Hey michael, i realize that, thats the strange part. I can set the path > and it makes no differance. also that happens when i'm trying to play > an avi file thats on my hardrive. In fact i get that when i try to play > any media files at all with it. Doesn't happen for me here - I've only tried .mov format from iMovie though. Maybe vlc defaults to dvd if the file you feed it is in some unknown format? Michael