Experimental multi-MPlayer installer

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What do you think about putting this script into the main trunk?

I have a Turion 64 x2 TL-56 laptop and it seemed too slow or dated to play 1980x1080 content, until I used ffmpeg-mt builds of mplayer, now they play just fine. With dual or quad core processors being the norm, they are no good if the software isn't designed for it.

Even with an additional 2 mplayer.exe binaries for AMD and Intel that are 31MB, it compresses well and adds just 4MB to the installer size.

There seems to be some issue with mpeg2 decoder w/ # of threads set to higher than 1, maybe some exception can be made for mpeg2 so that it will use only 1 thread.

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I added the neat Start Menu folder page to change the start menu folder. You disable it in the components page, if you don't want start menu shortcuts, deselect the Start Menu Shortcut option and the page won't display or create shortcuts.

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Only one bug I can think of:
- If you create the SMPlayer folder in a subfolder, the parent folder won't be deleted. e.g. if you create it in "Media Players\SMPlayer" or any number of other subfolders, it'll delete SMPlayer and it's shortcuts but a empty "Media Players" folder or however many other subfolders you specify will remain when you uninstall. The limitation stems from keeping the uninstaller from blasting any other shortcuts you might have in there (at least without a lot of extra super complicated code).

I've identified no issues with upgrading from the 0.6.9 release installer.

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Please state the version+branch+build type.

Like AMD multi core: "ffmpeg-mt, by `oss.netfarm.it`" and so on. (You could also include more builds like Sherpya, Kovensky, Mplayer-ww)

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I added a little something to display the processor name and how many cores and logical processors you have. Mainly to make it easier to choose a build if you're really unsure.

Please post feedback on the MPlayer build page. At least XP SP3/XP x64 is required to detect the cores/logical processors, the particular API is not present in pre-SP3 or Windows 2000.