first, install : imlib2 ( http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2 ) aalib (http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/aalib/) Image Magick ( http://www.imagemagick.org ) ----> watchout !! configure with --enable-shared and ffmpeg ----> watchout, it requires the cvs snapshot ! : http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/cvs you should also have installed libquicktime that is necessary for PDP ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/libquicktime ). gone through it ?? yeh, i know it's a lot. ok, first stage reached ) fix PD, PDP and FFMPEG paths in configure.ac autoconf ./configure make clean make as root, make install pidip is a library, it should be loaded with the "-lib /pidip" command line option but, BEWARE, it should be place AFTER the loading of PDP library ( option "-lib /pdp" ) Enjoy!! Thanx for getting here. Yves/ comments and bugs @ ydegoyon@free.fr