found an interesting new media player: sasami2k, which has a beautiful transparent interface, audio equalizer, “nice” subtitle support (not an overlay hack) and plays just about everything!

need to look at http://rachmaninoff.ti.uni-mannheim.de/sampeg/ to check whether that’s any good (recently checked http://www.videolan.org and they seem to know what they are doing); started a bit of testing for ulb (using corner detection) but nothing major yet.