Hello Rolf, pplay works with xv and also rgb output.
My black preview window must come from incompatible versions piave_0.2.2 and kdenlive_0.2. (These were the last tar releases with links from the homepages.) I remember vaguely that when trying piave on my home machine (also debian) the configure script correctly stated the missing xine-libs which would only result in missing runtime features but then gave compile errors when trying to include some xine stuff. If you want I can uninstall libxine-dev and try again. I suspect my problems compiling kdenlive come from package problems with debian testing. I can not install the kdelibs-dev package (don't know if this is the right one for kdenlive) without removing my whole kde desktop and at the moment I need it :(. bye markus
