I've updated (and changed the version numbering) the packages in first post to authors version 0.95 source code. Instead of naming it 1.4.0 it is now version 0.95 rev 14 to reflect authors 0.95 and my 14 build revision.
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Serge:

Yes, i can see how thats important for a project like mplayer... and i appreciate your no-compromise approach to development!

Inspired by that, i hereby declare i have open sourced my trivial 4 line modifications and hacks to make maemo friendly! Rejoice the mana from heaven!

http://wardenclyffetower.com/MaemoFi....95-src.tar.gz

Since i no longer have an OS2006 device to test on (or vm with which i could target it), i don't know if the bora build would work on there but perhaps since the app depends on gtk it is very OS-specific. Assuming bora build doesnt work on OS2006, someone with a gregale SDK scratchbox environment might try downloading the source code and doing standard :
./configure
make

... and then looking to see if it built the transmission executable in the gtk subdirectory. When you run it on the device, i suspect you will need to invoke the executable similar to how bora launches it, using :
EVENT_NOEPOLL=1 ./transmission
(thanks serge)

My setup package is likely unorthodox to linux purists such as yourself, so honestly anyone who would have a use for it would probably pick better file system structure.

I am working on determining why svn does not work on my chinook vm, but once that's resolved i will send code up to garage.