well, I didn't find anything in the makefile about that, and I was just about to try recompiling it from source when I decided to try the 2.6 kernel, and for whatever reason - that worked perfectly. so, STrRedWolf, I recommend you try the same thing, if you haven't already upgraded to the 2.6 kernel. I love mplayer. I run it on everything, and it was really sad when I couldn't get it working on my zaurus, but everything works nearly flawlessly. for some reason, I can only get sound when using headphones, but I honestly don't care. the internel speaker is a bit too quite for me anyway.