I'm guessing you mean that you consciously set settings that make gnome-mplayer not work and that gnome-mplayer should ensure that users should not be able to specify those settings?
Can you describe in more detail what settings you are talking about and how you set them and what is the behavior you are seeing. As I said before, providing a log of gnome-mplayer output with the --verbose or --reallyverbose option would also help. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org