mpd = music player daemon, not media player daemon.

Which suits me well, as I don't play videos at all. (Aside from the odd howto/demo videos online, which are mostly flash, anyway...)

So no help here, but I'd recommend installing Bundyo's, qwerty12's, or Serge's mplayer builds for the tablets, as they're probably the best optimized. (Bundyo's and qwerty12's have some odd things compiled in, which to get depends if you need any of those. qwerty12's in particular is good for ascii-art )