| The box is: | K6-2 450 | 384MB SDRAM | 4GB HDD | 16X DVDROM | Voodoo3 3000 w/video out AGP or PCI? Going by the WinDVD info, you meet the requirments for software DVD playback: a K6-2 450. Give that this is the bare minimum, I wouldn't expect playback to be perfect. As your running windows, have you tried changing your shell? It won't be as convient, but you can change your shell from explorer.exe to command.com. Drop exploer out of the picture and you might free up your CPU to do other things. (win9x: c:\windows\system.ini, change shell, reboot. WinNT and Win2k require registry hacks, check out http://litestep.net/docs/install.php for more info.) Anyway, I use ogle myself as it actually supports DVD menus. I don't think the quality is as good as WinDVD, but it isn't bad. xine isn't bad, I think they have a DVD plugin with menu support now but I haven't checked it out. I use Debian Woody myself, and installing Ogle is easy enough: apt-get install ogle-mmx It should include a script in /usr/share/doc/ogle-xmms/examples (or wherever it installs the docs) that will download/install libdvdcss, which you need for CSS DVD playback. No clue how RedHat/SuSE/Mandrake/other deal with DVD. Andrew S. Zbikowski | http://www.ringworld.org "The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world."