Reinhard, I decided to try vdr 1.6.0 and vdr-xine 0.8.2 and have ran into the XINE VDR VERSION MISMATCH in INSTALL issue. I am running xine-lib 1.2 pulled from the xine site pkg-config --cflags libxine -I/usr/local/include I can't see what is wrong Cheers Tony --