For me this is a more political than technical issue and should be viewed so. I fully understand, that everyone can freely and relatively easy use the SVN version. But as far as the Mplayer project have the latest numbered release on it's homepage, for a lot of people it's clear signal - latest version is 1.0RC2, newer version not available. Also for distributions, from SVN tree they can hardly see in what state it's current version (e.g. lot of new stuff added, expect problems; or lot of fixes added, should work like sharm). From my point of view, the next numbered version would be great and would bring the latest version of Mplayer to more people (and more feedback). Anyhow, thank you for your work and great SW which Mplayer is. BR, Roger Krowiak