Thanks, I'm not alone. Voted.

Also, 8165 is not my bug, since KMPlayer plays them, they aren't locked.

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/media/mmc1/Video $ mplayer ./Alicia\ Keys\ -\ Fallin\'.mpg
MPlayer SVN-r30099-4.2.1 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team

Playing ./Alicia Keys - Fallin'.mpg.
MPEG-PS file format detected.
VIDEO: MPEG1 352x240 (aspect 12) 29.970 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
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Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
VDecoder init failed
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Unsupported PixelFormat -1
Selected video codec: [ffmpeg1] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-1)
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Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 224.0 kbit/15.87% (ratio: 28000->176400)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
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[AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: No such file or directory
AO: [alsa] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
Movie-Aspect is 1.34:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [xv] 352x240 => 352x262 Planar YV12
[AO_ALSA] Write error: Broken pipe 0.000 1/ 1 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0
[AO_ALSA] Trying to reset soundcard.
[AO_ALSA] Write error: Broken pipe 0.000 2/ 2 ??% ??% ??,?% 1 0
[AO_ALSA] Trying to reset soundcard.
A: 3.4 V: 3.4 A-V: 0.036 ct: -0.004 97/ 97 31% 22% 29.5% 53 0
Exiting... (Quit)
/media/mmc1/Video $

Oh, it played, though I'm not sure it's obvious from the output.