Note that there seem to be -another- problem with mplayer on ppc. It dies on my G4 in feisty with an illegal instruction which is due to the use of the fsqrt instruction (specifically in read_font_desc_ft()). I haven't yet looked at wether this is a problem in the code picking wrong CPU optimisations or if it's been built -mpowerpc-gpopt, enabling use of hte optional GP instructions (which are really only available on 64 bits processors at this point).
Note that there seem to be -another- problem with mplayer on ppc. It dies on my G4 in feisty with an illegal instruction which is due to the use of the fsqrt instruction (specifically in read_font_ desc_ft( )). I haven't yet looked at wether this is a problem in the code picking wrong CPU optimisations or if it's been built -mpowerpc-gpopt, enabling use of hte optional GP instructions (which are really only available on 64 bits processors at this point).