diff -ru mplayer-head-20060902-orig/libmpdemux/asfheader.c mplayer-head-20060902/libmpdemux/asfheader.c
--- mplayer-head-20060902-orig/libmpdemux/asfheader.c	Sat Sep  2 19:18:24 2006
+++ mplayer-head-20060902/libmpdemux/asfheader.c	Sat Sep  2 21:30:20 2006
@@ -406,7 +406,8 @@
         uint32_t max_bitrate;
         char *ptr = &hdr[pos];
         mp_msg(MSGT_HEADER,MSGL_V,"============ ASF Stream group == START ===\n");
-        stream_count = le2me_16(*(uint16_t*)ptr);
+        memcpy(&stream_count, ptr, sizeof(uint16_t)); // align value
+        stream_count = le2me_16(stream_count);
         ptr += sizeof(uint16_t);
         if (ptr > &hdr[hdr_len]) goto len_err_out;
         if(stream_count > 0)
@@ -413,7 +414,8 @@
               streams = malloc(2*stream_count*sizeof(uint32_t));
         mp_msg(MSGT_HEADER,MSGL_V," stream count=[0x%x][%u]\n", stream_count, stream_count );
         for( i=0 ; i<stream_count ; i++ ) {
-          stream_id = le2me_16(*(uint16_t*)ptr);
+          memcpy(&stream_id, ptr, sizeof(uint16_t)); // align value
+          stream_id = le2me_16(stream_count);
           ptr += sizeof(uint16_t);
           if (ptr > &hdr[hdr_len]) goto len_err_out;
           memcpy(&max_bitrate, ptr, sizeof(uint32_t));// workaround unaligment bug on sparc