A new release of mplayer_1.0rc1-maemo.27 has been uploaded to extras-devel repository.
If no regressions are reported within a reasonable time, it will be moved to 'extras' repository. If we get some important regressions reported, there will be subsequent releases in 'extras-devel' repository (and announced in this thread) until the quality is good enough.

Please be sure to report the problems you encounter, don't think that they will magically fixed themselves before getting promoted to stable status and get to 'extras'. The previous release .26 showed that in spite of being tested at garage extras-devel repository for a long time, serious bugs still slipped in and were discovered only after putting that release to 'extras'. This might be an indication that we can't rely too much on the community testing in 'extras-devel' repository. It surely helps, but apparently is not enough to ensure good quality.

If we did not have the urgent need to fix bugs, this release should have been an upgrade to upstream rc2 version.

Below are the links to .deb files (they can be only used to upgrade mplayer from any version since .24, fresh install will fail with missing dependencies) if you don't want to enable 'extras-devel' repository on your device:
OS2006: http://repository.maemo.org/extras-d...ree/m/mplayer/
OS2008 (does not work on OS2008HE!): http://repository.maemo.org/extras-d...ree/m/mplayer/

Support for OS2007 is going to be dropped as having too many OS versions to support just takes extra time. Please let me know if somebody is still seriously interested in OS2007.

Nokia N800/N810 users: This version has some performance improvements in AAC audio decoding support. It means that .mp4 files should play a bit better than before. If it still does not support .mp4 files good enough, that's not a bug, but an indication that more efforts still need to be put into optimizations.

Nokia 770 users: This version supports automatic detection of tearsync & yuv420 video mode support in recent 770 kernels from fanoush and anables these features without the need to edit any config files. A potential pitfall here is that some early SDHC kernels falsely reported availability of tearsync support, but in fact that code was not ready yet. If you encounter device deadlock and reboot on trying to play video in mplayer, please consider upgrading the kernel. The users of stock Nokia kernel are unaffected and mplayer will just work the same as before (that means without these cool features ).