Comment 3 for bug 539315

The url you've posted does not point to a multithreaded capable version of mplayer

Anyway, this is a wontfix request, in ubuntu we require mplayer to use a system ffmpeg, and newer mplayer snapshots won't work with the system ffmpeg. Updating ffmpeg is out of question for lucid, I'll do so for lucid+1.

what we could do is to package a mplayer-snapshot package for the motumedia PPA. this is indeed on my todo list.