Or we make our own "mpd" and increment the version number so that apt prefers our mpd deb over the correct one. (this might be more seamless and help with other apps that 'depend' on mpd)
Mplayer you have to pass -ao esd and some form of video flag.. and it'll play but extremely choppy... I imagine the maemo mplayer was built somehow lighter-weight than the regular debian mplayer?? much like the Maemo ESD files???