WARNING -- Attempted Thread Hijacking -- Pardon the intrusion.

I have a new laptop that I haven't sullied with too many players/codecs yet, so I'm thinking I'll switch to MPlayer. From the website it sounds like the be all and end all -- QT/MPEG, Real, VfW/WMV in all their many versions. Are there any "gotchas," or just grab a fistfull of codecs and go?