Another way to get the "freshest" version of mplayer downloaded is to get the SVN version of mplayer source code. Run this as root in terminal window (cut and paste into command line and hit ENTER):
Quote:
svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk mplayer
cd mplayer
./configure --enable-gui --enable-largefiles --enable-menu
--enable-dynamic-plugins && make && sudo make install
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Then follow the mplayer instructions for installing fonts, skins, and
binary codecs. You will need the PPC version of the codecs collection,
but it doesn't have anywhere near the number of codecs as the x86
version. On the other hand, most of the missing codecs are for obscure
formats.