The crashing video is Movie/Logo.avi $ ffmpeg -i Movie/Logo.avi [avi @ 0x26a35e0]sample size (2) != block align (4) Input #0, avi, from 'Movie/Logo.avi': Duration: 00:00:14.01, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 4741 kb/s Stream #0.0: Video: msvideo1, rgb555le, 320x240, 20 tbr, 20 tbn, 20 tbc Stream #0.1: Audio: pcm_s16le, 44100 Hz, 2 channels, s16, 1411 kb/s $ file Movie/Logo.avi Movie/Logo.avi: RIFF (little-endian) data, AVI, 320 x 240, 20.00 fps, video: uncompressed, audio: uncompressed PCM (stereo, 44100 Hz) There is nothing special about the movie except it is an incredibly cheesy 14 seconds of wasted time. Totem plays it just fine. It does not even use mp3 encoding. Wine should be able to play it. ffplay plays it, too. Wine's msvideo1 decoder is based on ffmpeg. http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2004-January/009367.html http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=Microsoft_Video_1 At least it's a free download with no nags if anyone else wants to try it. http://www.nealien.com/Everlong/ 77Mb I think we have enough info for a bug report, but there may already be one. http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13155