> i cannot find any packet for mplayer player, even i try apt-pinning with > stable , also i cannot find any w32codecs packet with both method, thanks. here is a good url talking about mplayer and debian. http://people.debian.org/~mjr/legal/mplayer.html like most others that have responded to this email, i use christian's repos: # mplayer deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sid main -matt zagrabelny