Forgot about these.. for MPD the only problem in the installation is the default config file does not work.. it crashes.

As soon as I modify the default config file to point to:

/home/user/music
/home/user/music/playlist (with correct permissions)

And then add the sound device "ao" then it works with apt-get install mpd again. Maybe we could build a tablet-mpd with the "provides mpd" and has the correct tablet config file inside of it... ?

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???