Its a great advancement in HD playback on Linux and people should be able to take advantage of it. I found this process from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=786095
To use mplayer with multithreaded decoding abilities all you have to do is compile mplayer as per usual, but having replaced the normal ffmpeg source code (within the mplayer source code directory) with the ffmpeg-mt source code (http://gitorious.org/projects/ffmpeg/repos/ffmpeg-mt). I’m going to use the following guide written by andrew.46 entitled [Howto] Successfully install the svn mplayer + [...]
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