DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: Mplayer
Can mplayer be updated to more current? The current one does not play quicktime movies(like from apple trailers). 
I updated mine on my own through apt-get and the nerim and debian sarge repos. It took me hours to get past the libxv1 error. Finally i got everything working and can now play quicktime vids.
s'funny, I can play this with the current mplayer (even without the codec pack)
https://www.unizh.ch/equad/img/1047mn00_kl.mov
Okay, that looked nasty, but played just fine. How about playing ->
 http://www.apple.com/trailers/
I happened to compile a recent cvs version of mplayer not that long ago on dsl (including mencoder).  No gui - cli only.  But you don't really need the gui.
Appears to work as a .uci. I'll test it again and then send to the repository.
original here.