You have lost me, in what way was my post unhelpful, you did say that you had found the repository but that when you installed mplayer it did not work.

All I can say is I installed mplayer with no problems using the method I described. Also if as you say mplayer refuses to install, there is usually a view "details" for why, if you read these details it will give you BIG clues on file(s) that are missing. Go back to http://www.gronmayer.com/it/index.ph...&system=maemo4 search for the named file(s) in the 2008 repositories to find the repository with the missing file(s), make sure that repository is included in your list. (Use and understand "how to use" application manager on OS 2008)

Then hopefully mplayer will install and also pull down the missing files it needs. Hope this is additionally helpful, Merry Christmas

Have you got it working now, that's better than taking additional "pots" at someone where you can easily cause the what me situations which start all the silly flames in forums.