I can confirm the bad behavior while playing a DVD on Edgy AMD64 with mplayer version 0.99+1.0pre8-0ubuntu4.
Playing it with --nosound option works fine. Please fix asap, that application is a must :-D -- Crash when playing DVDs https://launchpad.net/bugs/53883 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs