Sorry to do this (thought i had tested everything), but the 1.2.4 release was not working for me in mplayer and i disovered it does not support hex encoded chars. So i changed both realparams to convert hex encoded chars to actual chars. realparams forces file:// at beginning, and realparams2 is volume format (/media/mmc2...) mplayer now uses realparams with quotes around them and seems to work fine. 1.2.5 download in first post and repo.