this file plays correctly using mplayer -vc vp6 fmv12_generichub_english_ntsc.avi but crashes usinv mplayer -vc ffvp6 fmv12_generichub_english_ntsc.avi unfortunately the second possibility is default, so it crashes unless you play with options just to let you know i used windows port and i don't know how to build it there from sources, so i hope this file will help you here is error message: MPlayer Sherpya-SVN-r23404-4.2.0 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) X2 Dual Core Processor BE-2350 (Family: 15, Model: 107, Stepping: 1) SSE supported but disabled SSE2 supported but disabled CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0 Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx Playing fmv12_generichub_english_ntsc.avi. AVI file format detected. [aviheader] Video stream found, -vid 0 AVI: No audio stream found -> no sound. VIDEO: [VP60] 1280x720 24bpp 29.970 fps 1683.7 kbps (205.5 kbyte/s) SUB: Could not determine file format Cannot load subtitles: ./fmv12_generichub_english_ntsc.txt ========================================================================== Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family Selected video codec: [ffvp6] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg VP6 decoder) ========================================================================== Audio: no sound Starting playback... VDec: vo config request - 1280 x 720 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12) VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0) Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied. VO: [directx] 1280x720 => 1280x720 Planar YV12 New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong. Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf). subtitle font: load_sub_face failed. New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong. Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf). subtitle font: load_sub_face failed. V: 0.0 1/ 1 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0 MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: decode_video - MPlayer crashed by bad usage of CPU/FPU/RAM. Recompile MPlayer with --enable-debug and make a 'gdb' backtrace and disassembly. Details in DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports_what.html#bugreports_crash. - MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen. It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in your gcc version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault, please read DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there. We can't and won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a possible bug.