I can confirm the issue still exists in oneiric. mplayer output for the video file attached here:
stas@stas-desktop:~$ mplayer mplayer-crash.wmv mplayer: Symbol `ff_codec_bmp_tags' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking MPlayer SVN-r33713-4.6.1 (C) 2000-2011 MPlayer Team mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: No such file or directory Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control. Playing mplayer-crash.wmv. ASF file format detected. [asfheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1 [asfheader] Video stream found, -vid 2 VIDEO: [WMV3] 320x240 24bpp 1000.000 fps 233.7 kbps (28.5 kbyte/s) Clip info: title: author: copyright: comments: Load subtitles in ./ open: No such file or directory [MGA] Couldn't open: /dev/mga_vid open: No such file or directory [MGA] Couldn't open: /dev/mga_vid [VO_TDFXFB] Can't open /dev/fb0: Permission denied. [VO_3DFX] Unable to open /dev/3dfx. ========================================================================== Opening video decoder: [dmo] DMO video codecs DMO dll supports VO Optimizations 0 1 DMO dll might use previous sample when requested MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: init_video_codec - 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. [ This binary of MPlayer in Debian is currently compiled with '--enable-debug'; the debugging symbols are in the package 'mplayer-dbg'.] MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: init_video_codec -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Medibuntu Packaging Team, which is the registrant for Medibuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/664848 Title: mplayer crashes opening wmv files encoded with DMO codec To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/medibuntu/+bug/664848/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~medibuntu-maintainers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~medibuntu-maintainers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

