Hi, Thanks for the reply.... as you said i checked for (1)."arm-linux-ogg123 -d alsa sample.ogg" & (2). "arm-linux-ogg123 -h" for (1) it gave # *"No such device alsa/alsa09"* (2) under 'output options' -d dev, --device dev Use output device "dev". Available device Live: null File: wav, raw, au for the same thing when i tried on my pc, for (1) it worked playing a song (2) under 'output options' -d dev, --device dev Use output device "dev". Available device Live: esd, alsa09, oss, null File: wav, raw, au so how to link alsa while cross compiling the libao . while cross compiling files i did the following, find if i have gone wrong any where .. (1). libao = ./configure --prefix=/myfolder/ --host=arm-linux --target=arm-linux *--disable-esd --disable-arts --disable-shared* (2). libogg = ./configure --prefix=/myfolder/ --host=arm-linux --target=arm-linux (3). libvorbis = ./configure --prefix=/myfolder/ --host=arm-linux --target=arm-linux *--disable-shared* (4). flac = ./configure --prefix=/myfolder/ --host=arm-linux --target=arm-linux *--disable-cpplibs* (5). speex = ./configure --prefix=/myfolder/ --host=arm-linux --target=arm-linux (6). libcurl = ./configure --prefix=/myfolder/ --host=arm-linux --target=arm-linux (7). vorbis tool - 1.2.0 = ./configure --prefix=/myfolder/ --host=arm-linux --target=arm-linux *--disable-oggdec* please help me .... waiting for your reply.. Thanks and regards Dileep -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/vorbis/attachments/20080603/5e4117c3/attachment.htm