This file shows lots gfx errors during playback. When they appear mplayer or ffplay show the error message below. When using win32 dlls the file gets played without issues. MPlayer dev-SVN-r21821-4.1.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ (Family: 15, Model: 47, Stepping: 0) CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE SSE2 107 audio & 227 video codecs Playing 20061209ranbat_3rd-part.wmv. ASF file format detected. VIDEO: [WMV2] 320x240 24bpp 30.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s) Clip info: name: author: copyright: comments: xscreensaver_disable: xscreensaver wid=4194324. ========================================================================== Requested video codec family [wmv8] (vfm=dshow) not available. Enable it at compilation. Requested video codec family [wmvdmo] (vfm=dmo) not available. Enable it at compilation. Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family Selected video codec: [ffwmv2] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg M$ WMV2/WMV8) ========================================================================== ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 64.0 kbit/4.54% (ratio: 8005->176400) Selected audio codec: [ffwmav2] afm: ffmpeg (DivX audio v2 (FFmpeg)) ========================================================================== AO: [oss] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) Starting playback... VDec: vo config request - 320 x 240 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12) VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0) Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied. VO: [xv] 320x240 => 320x240 Planar YV12 [wmv2 @ 0xd86f30]J-type picture is not supported 1% 0% 0.8% 0 0 Error while decoding frame! [wmv2 @ 0xd86f30]J-type picture is not supported 1% 0% 0.8% 0 0 Error while decoding frame! [wmv2 @ 0xd86f30]J-type picture is not supported 1% 0% 0.8% 0 0 Error while decoding frame! [wmv2 @ 0xd86f30]J-type picture is not supported 1% 0% 0.8% 0 0 Error while decoding frame! [wmv2 @ 0xd86f30]J-type picture is not supported 1% 0% 0.8% 0 0 Error while decoding frame! [wmv2 @ 0xd86f30]J-type picture is not supported 1% 0% 0.8% 0 0 Error while decoding frame! [wmv2 @ 0xd86f30]J-type picture is not supported 1% 0% 0.8% 0 0 Error while decoding frame! [wmv2 @ 0xd86f30]J-type picture is not supported 2% 0% 0.8% 0 0 Error while decoding frame! [wmv2 @ 0xd86f30]J-type picture is not supported 2% 0% 0.8% 0 0 Error while decoding frame! [wmv2 @ 0xd86f30]J-type picture is not supported 2% 0% 0.8% 0 0 Error while decoding frame! [wmv2 @ 0xd86f30]J-type picture is not supported 2% 0% 0.8% 0 0 Error while decoding frame! [wmv2 @ 0xd86f30]J-type picture is not supported 2% 0% 0.8% 0 0 Error while decoding frame! [wmv2 @ 0xd86f30]J-type picture is not supported 2% 0% 0.8% 0 0 Error while decoding frame! [wmv2 @ 0xd86f30]J-type picture is not supported 2% 0% 0.8% 0 0 Error while decoding frame! A: 23.3 V: 23.3 A-V: 0.012 ct: -0.037 438/438 2% 0% 0.8% 0 0 Exiting... (Quit)