Hi; When I replaced the sample avi file (Face2.avi) with something else. I got a strange error and the program continued without showing anything forever! Can anybody help me? Here are the error messages: <init> : Avifile RELEASE-0.7.41-050404-19:38-(SUSE <init> : Available CPU flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 tm pbe est tm2 <init> : 4294.97 MHz Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1400MHz detected <reader> : Checking: data/Face2.avi <AVI reader> : MainHeader: MicroSecPerFrame=40000 MaxBytesPerSec=3609600 PaddingGranularity=512 Flags=[ HAS_INDEX MUST_USE_INDEX WAS_CAPTURED_FILE ] TotalFrames=275 InitialFrames=0 Streams=1 SuggestedBufferSize=144384 WxH=720x576 Scale=0 Rate=0 Start=0 Length=0 <AVI reader> : StreamHeader: Type=vids Handler=dvsd Flags=[ ] InitialFrames=0 Scale=1 Rate=25 Start=0 Length=275 SuggestedBufferSize=144384 Quality=-1 SampleSize=0 Rect l,r,t,b=0,720,0,576 <AVI reader> : InfoChunk Software: Matrox MQSink Filter . Format: 6. Build: 2.0.0.271 <AVI reader> : Reading index from offset: 39836680 <AVI reader> : Stream 0 vids : dvsd (0x64737664) 275 chunks (1.07KB) <StreamCache> : Warning: Too large chunk 16777218 <StreamCache> : Warning: Too large chunk 1639342403 <StreamCache> : Warning: Too large chunk 1633315510 <StreamCache> : Warning: Too large chunk 1454529158 .... <reader> : Initialized video stream (chunk tblsz: 275, fmtsz: 72) <LDT keeper> : Installed fs segment: 0x40d94000 <codec keeper> : Found 8 plugins (/usr/lib/avifile-0.7,A:38,V:84) <codec keeper> : Created video decoder: FF DV Video