On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 10:15:13AM +0200, Reimar D?ffinger wrote: > On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 05:33:58PM +1100, andrew wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 10:50:18PM +0000, Mark Blain wrote: > > > > > I tested successfully on a 32-bit Windows box with the manual-install > > > Lagarith 32-bit DLL in my mplayer codecs folder. > > > > My own failure was on a slackware box with a similar manual placement > > of the dll. > > > > > Please post the messages you receive when trying to play the file. > > > > The error message that precipitates the MPlayer crash is: > > > > +--------- > > Opening video decoder: [vfw] Win32/VfW video codecs > > ======= Win32 (VFW) VIDEO Codec init ======= > > Loading codec DLL: 'lagarith.dll' > > Called unk_EncodePointer > > You can try attached patch committed a fixed variant, latest SVN at least shouldn't crash anymore.