Open mplayer as root.
Open several other formats, see if any work (still as root).
Uninstall that mplayer and install the revisions I mentioned in my previous post
Ok, couldn't wait and hacked a bit :) A little digging showed that MPlayer had a release from 7-Oct-2007, about the time unsolo launched this. They used a revision close to what he used, and for ffmpeg 10677. Since I wanted to use the exact revision of mplayer, and the current ffmpeg rev doesn't wor...
Can someone post a *full* mplayer svn repository with the revision 24724 that it's supposed to work? Doing svn co svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk@24714 mplayer doesn't seem to solve it since it looks like mplayer relies on external svn repositories which probably is pulling in Head. Tha...