[coolj]

It's nice to see a renewed interest in developing mplayer. Do you know if there are plans to get it packaged by the major distros?

[pgz]

I know it was added to deb-multimedia some days ago and it is also in the gentoo-multimedia overlay and on AUR.

I think many distributions would consider mpv a duplicate of mplayer, so for one to be packaged officially the other would have to be removed. Realistically that's not going to happen anytime soon.