OT: Really Big Jacobs-Ladders

Unfortunately the two long-arc mpegs just produce Unexpected startcode 00000000 in system layer when thrown at my mpeg player. I went looking for updates to the software I use, and it doesn't appear there are any; the readme webpage shows a date of "July 19, 1996". Anyone know of an open-source mpeg player that doesn't require installing the kitchen sink and yet is reasonably up-to-date? (I found something called VLC, which looked good, until I saw that it required libdvdcss, libdvdplay, libdvdread, libdvbpsi, mpeg2dec, a52dec, ffmpeg, faad2, libmad, lame, libid3tag, libogg, libvorbis, libtheora, flac, openslp, fribidi, live, gettext, libiconf, freetype, libebml, libmatroska, wxWindows, zlib, libpng, libxml2, and libmodplug - most of which are completely irrelevant for what I want! I don't care about doing anything with DVDs. I don't care about font rendering or non-Latin-1 language support. I don't care about encoding. I care about GUIs, but negatively - I actively don't want a GUI. I don't want a program that tries to do everything, even for small values of "everything". I want a program that does one well-contained task well: unpacking MPEGs into video frames. Doing audio data would be a plus.) /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse(a)rodents.montreal.qc.ca / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B