Hi Riccardo, Thanks for your answer. It seems that the gstreamer-bad plugin has the necessary decoder for flv. The gstreamer-bad is a large collection of plugins and I would like to have flv support only. Could you give me some hint on what should be the configure options? Also, just installing the codec probably won't be enough and I need to hack into swfdec code so that the flv related functions are used. Can you tell me where do I need to make these changes? Thanks and Regards, Ravi Karmarkar <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 12:47 AM, Riccardo Magliocchetti <<a href="mailto:riccardo.magliocchetti@gmail.com">riccardo.magliocchetti@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Ravi Karmarkar ha scritto:<div class="im"> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi, I am trying to play .flv files on swfdec compiled for sh4 target architecture using a directfb backend. Somehow there is no suitable decoder found for this format. According to the wiki, the 0.8.4 version should play these files. Do I need to install any additional dependencies? What am I missing? </blockquote> </div> swfdec decodes flv, probably you are missing audio and video codecs to decode what is contained in the flv. These decoders should be provided by gstreamer plugins like -good, -bad and -ugly. hth, riccardo </blockquote></div>