Boricua,
Sorry, but I've been out for most of the day and just got back to my system this evening.
Here is the MPlayer packages listing from Packman's site:
Package a) MPlayer-1.0pre7-pm.2.i586.rpm compiled for i586 (pentium and lower)
Package b) MPlayer-1.0pre7-pm.2.i686.rpm compiled for i686 (pentium-pro and better)
Package c) MPlayer-1.0pre7-pm.2.x86_64.rpm Compiled for x86_64
You didn't indicate in your reply which of these packages you installed. Did you pick the correct rpm for your "old box"?
my packages boricua@lares:~> rpm -qa |grep -i mplayer MPlayer-1.0pre7-pm.2 mplayerplug-in-2.70-0.pm.3
Also, did you pick the correct rpm for your installed version of SuSE?
And what about the codecs? Did you also install this package from the Packman site? (you will find it under the main index, not in multimedia):
w32codec-all-20050412-0.pm.0.i586.rpm
boricua@lares:~> rpm -qa |grep -i codec w32codec-all-20050412-0.pm.0