[Coded-Dude]

Well, that was fun.........got up and running with a lot of stuff working. I haven't tested everything(video still to come), but am making good headway. XFCE was a bit of a pain - mainly due to having to continuously Ctrl+Alt+Backspace - to test the config. But I got it going and can help out anyone who wants. I switched the ps3-video-mode to 1080i as 720p just wasn't enough screen(even though text is a bit fainter than usual), I'm still having an issue with a couple packages and the package updater(dependency issues), but I should be able to sort it out soon. Anywho, its late and I've been up far too long already(not sure whether to have another Dew and keep going or go to sleep) I'll update later.

[EDIT]
mplayer is installed and working(kind of).....I was able to download and install the latest cvs as mentioned in the mplayer tutorial on this site:

After linking to a font file and installing the codecs and gui's i decided to give it a shot.

tested: Muse - Knights of Cydonia quictime movie file(mov)

mplayer played the file without any issue, but gmplayer gave me some pop-up errors(although the same errors were displayed in the out from mplayer. Basically, I could launch/watch the video with mplayer just fine, but had to specify video out(-vo x11) for gmplayer; otherwise I would get sound and no video. I tried a few other video out options, but none worked(prperly), so far. Here is the output of both commands. For the sake of time I'm just going to Ctrl-C both commands and paste the output.

[root@localhost Downloads]# mplayer muse_knights-of-cydonia_450.mov
MPlayer dev-SVN-r25993-4.1.1 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team
AltiVec found
CPU: PowerPC

Playing muse_knights-of-cydonia_450.mov.
libavformat file format detected.
[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x1070adb8]negative ctts, ignoring
[lavf] Video stream found, -vid 0
[lavf] Audio stream found, -aid 1
VIDEO: [avc1] 400x300 24bpp 24.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
[VO_XV] It seems there is no Xvideo support for your video card available.
[VO_XV] Run 'xvinfo' to verify its Xv support and read
[VO_XV] DOCS/HTML/en/video.html#xv!
[VO_XV] See 'mplayer -vo help' for other (non-xv) video out drivers.
[VO_XV] Try -vo x11.
================================================== ========================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
================================================== ========================
================================================== ========================
Opening audio decoder: [faad] AAC (MPEG2/4 Advanced Audio Coding)
FAAD: compressed input bitrate missing, assuming 128kbit/s!
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16be, 128.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 16000->176400)
Selected audio codec: [faad] afm: faad (FAAD AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio) decoder)
================================================== ========================
[AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Invalid argument
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: pcm_hw.c:1248snd_pcm_hw_open) open /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p failed: No such file or directory
[AO_ALSA] Playback open error: No such file or directory
[AO ESD] esd_open_sound failed: No child processes
[AO SDL] Samplerate: 44100Hz Channels: Stereo Format s16be
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: pcm_hw.c:1248snd_pcm_hw_open) open /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p failed: No such file or directory
AO: [sdl] 44100Hz 2ch s16be (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 400 x 300 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [x11] 400x300 => 400x300 Planar YV12
[swscaler @ 0x107f87cc]ALTIVEC: Color Space ARGB
[swscaler @ 0x107f87cc]SwScaler: using unscaled yuv420p -> rgb32 special converter
A: 1.7 V: 1.7 A-V: -0.013 ct: 0.027 0/ 0 59% 37% 3.4% 0 0
Exiting... (Quit)
[root@localhost Downloads]#

[root@localhost Downloads]# gmplayer -vo x11
MPlayer dev-SVN-r25993-4.1.1 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team
AltiVec found
CPU: PowerPC

Playing /root/Downloads/muse_knights-of-cydonia_450.mov.
libavformat file format detected.
[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x1070adb8]negative ctts, ignoring
[lavf] Video stream found, -vid 0
[lavf] Audio stream found, -aid 1
VIDEO: [avc1] 400x300 24bpp 24.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
================================================== ========================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
================================================== ========================
================================================== ========================
Opening audio decoder: [faad] AAC (MPEG2/4 Advanced Audio Coding)
FAAD: compressed input bitrate missing, assuming 128kbit/s!
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16be, 128.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 16000->176400)
Selected audio codec: [faad] afm: faad (FAAD AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio) decoder)
================================================== ========================
[AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Invalid argument
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: pcm_hw.c:1248snd_pcm_hw_open) open /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p failed: No such file or directory
[AO_ALSA] Playback open error: No such file or directory
[AO ESD] esd_open_sound failed: Connection refused
[AO SDL] Samplerate: 44100Hz Channels: Stereo Format s16be
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: pcm_hw.c:1248snd_pcm_hw_open) open /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p failed: No such file or directory
AO: [sdl] 44100Hz 2ch s16be (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 400 x 300 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [x11] 400x300 => 400x300 Planar YV12
[swscaler @ 0x107f87cc]ALTIVEC: Color Space ARGB
[swscaler @ 0x107f87cc]SwScaler: using unscaled yuv420p -> rgb32 special converter
A: 31.1 V: 31.1 A-V: 0.008 ct: 0.025 0/ 0 13% 5% 1.9% 0 0
Exiting... (Quit)
[root@localhost Downloads]#

I guess I should have posted both command outputs the same(I posted gmplayer -vo x11 output instead), but I'm too tired to care right now. Its time for some sleep.