This video plays fine with ffmpeg before 2003-10-11 08:29:05 +0000, but later versions (today is 2003-12-11) cause mplayer to crash. The change that makes it fail is "recommit of direct rendering support": http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=6259039 http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ffmpeg/libavcodec/mjpeg.c.diff?cvsroot=FFMpeg&r1=1.73&r2=1.74&f=u