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Hi Everyone, Long time complainer, 1st time help requester....well in this site anyway Right, here's the problem, I want to get VLC to play as part of an app that I'm writing. at the minute the code is going through a shell script. I have added the apache www-data user to my group and made sure that the www-data now has read, write & execute privileges for the shell script PHP is calling $cmd="bash /home/john/www/projects/get-iplayer/application/watch.sh"; shell_exec($cmd); #!/bin/bash cd /home/john/www/projects/get-iplayer/application ls -la export DISPLAY=:0 /usr/bin/vlc --x11-display :0 /home/john/Desktop/TV/Underdog.mp4 & disown I have tried many variations & gone through quite a few suggested suggestions (from other peoples posts) but nothing has worked. Can anybody help, I am willing to provide any code you need I am willing to help you help me in any way I can Sod it: I'll even have your babies if you help me <small>I also lie & make false promises</small> Thanks everyone & here's hoping John