Still not having any luck with custom playlists. Here is what I see in the logs after going to the svn version (revision 420) :
17:52:26 T:5892 ERROR: Keymapping error: no such action 'special://profile/playlists/video/anime.xsp' defined
17:52:26 T:5892 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: Opening: special://profile/playlists/video/Anime.xsp
17:52:26 T:5892 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player):
ut MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
17:52:26 T:5572 NOTICE: Creating InputStream
17:52:26 T:5572 NOTICE: Creating Demuxer
17:52:26 T:5572 ERROR: CDVDDemuxFFmpeg::Open - error probing input format, special://profile/playlists/video/Anime.xsp
17:52:26 T:5572 ERROR: CDVDPlayer::OpenDemuxStream - Error creating demuxer
17:52:26 T:5572 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::OnExit()
17:52:26 T:5572 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::OnExit() deleting input stream
17:52:26 T:5892 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::CloseFile()
17:52:26 T:5892 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player):
ut MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
17:52:26 T:5892 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
17:52:26 T:5892 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: finished waiting