This has a surprising score, implying that I should care. I hate to be that guy, but why should I care about this? There's no context or overview of the ramifications of this. By all appearances this is people being morons to each other on mailing lists (nothing new, particularly on -dev lists), and typically this kind of drama has absolutely no bearing on anything outside of the project...
A casual Google leads me to this, which continues to paint a nope, not interested saga for me: http://lwn.net/Articles/424050/
(Edit: The author of that URL is somehow associated with MPlayer -- he seems to do documentation. There is an interview of him on the MPlayer Web site[1]. With that in mind, discovering that he called Ted T'so a "[L]inux-loving manwhore" and a racial slur on his blog[2], I'm now even more disinterested in the entire MPlayer development team and their comings and goings. What a classy bunch.
[1]: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design5/interview-gabucino.html