A new version of maemo mplayer (mplayer_1.0rc1-maemo.6) is now available:
https://garage.maemo.org/frs/?group_id=54

It contains mostly bugfixes and usability tweaks based on the feedback from the previous version, release notes are here:

• Now MPlayer has an icon for its own window in the taskbar, so if you (accidently) switch to other application or press home button, you can easily get back
• Fixed a bug in gstreamer audio module which was causing freeze on trying to play next video/audio file (when specifying several files in the command line, using playlist or slave mode)
• Updated OSD menu config, added 'fast seek' option which should help with seeking in long movies

Now I hope that this version does not have any issues left that need immediate attention and it can promoted to stable for getting into extras repository. Please test it extensively and report any problems, your feedback is very helpful. Thanks in advance.

By the way, there is still a good potential for further performance improvements (scaling and video decoding can be optimized) and if bugfixing and other release management related issues don't eat all my free time, MPlayer will become even better at playing high bitrate/resolution movies soon