electronic arts video should be supported according to docs however this one (ea_bumper_english_ntsc.vp6) always crashes mplayer i don't compile mplayer myself (i am using it in windows) so i can't provide additional information, please try yourself video is from game need for speed undercover attempt to play file always ends with: libavformat file format detected. [ea @ 02FD48E0]header element 0x00 set to 0x1df851e0 [ea @ 02FD48E0]header element 0x05 set to 0x0000001e [ea @ 02FD48E0]header element 0x06 set to 0x00000065 [ea @ 02FD48E0]entered audio subheader [ea @ 02FD48E0]revision (element 0x80) set to 0x00000003 [ea @ 02FD48E0]num_samples (element 0x85) set to 0x00086e68 [ea @ 02FD48E0]num_channels (element 0x82) set to 0x00000006 [ea @ 02FD48E0]revision2 (element 0xA0) set to 0x00000017 [ea @ 02FD48E0]end of header block reached (within audio subheader) [ea @ 02FD48E0]unsupported stream type; revision2=23 MPlayer interrupted by signal 8 in module: demux_open - 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. i am looking forward to see you working one day :) thanks in advance