thanks for your long answer.
Normaly i dont "switch back to opera", but sometimes the video just stops (with a smaller picture in upper left corner), so i thought the video is over and clicked somewhere (or pressed ESC (?)), so this might have switched to Opera.

Which options do you recommend for usage with opera?
Is it better to put the options directly in the script, which is called by opera, or should i better put theme somehow in .mplayer/config ?

Is it possible to see if mplayer is still starting up, when i clicked a link, or if it already crashed because the video was not playable or some other reasons keep mplayer from working correctly (i.e. to less memory or so).

Sometimes i thought the video will never start, closed the webpage, and shortly after this, a video starts.
Is it maybe somehow possible to use the "GUI-Mplayer" directly from opera, without cut/paste the link manually?

Thanks
bsterix