Well, people successfully watched video half a year ago for sure, so it is not like we badly need to use only the latest builds I prefer to have a good reason for every upgrade, as upgrading maemo package of mplayer from 1.0pre8 to 1.0rc1 in the past was not completely smooth and had a few minor issues to solve. Surely, all the problems are solvable, but they take some time and it is better when this work pays off and a new version is really better.

But of course, you proved that the upgrade is clearly justified now as we need to solve the flv seek issue anyway When I checked mplayer changelogs earlier, I apparently missed the information about flv related improvements.

I tracked ffmpeg development all this time and surely have seen this feature. It was primarily developed for dualcore x86 processors such as Intel Core2 and Athlon X2 to help in decoding of very heavy HD videos. AFAIK initially there was a small performance regression on singlecore processors after introducing this feature. Anyway, this slice-based parallel H.264 decoding is useless for internet tablets as we have only one ARM core.