I don't quite see as to why that happens given mplayer can do it, and both project use the same libraries. http://jengelh.medozas.de/files/takeshi.mkv $ rpm -q libxine1 xine-ui libxine1-1.1.16.3-0.pm.3 xine-ui-0.99.5cvs-20090203.pm.0821 (opensuse 11.1) $ xine takeshi.mkv [mpeg4 @ 0x91196f0]header damaged