First please see this MPlayer for Win32 bugtracker page: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2422414&group_id=205275&atid=992986 I not confirm SMPlayer crash - I use pure console command, but distortion still happens. And the same bug in dev-SVN-r28349 (deb package from: http://smplayer.berlios.de/forums/viewtopic.php?id=741&p=1 ) under ubuntu: http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/808/zrzutekranuoknobeznazwyjt5.png and my build SVN-r28382 (my first, simple build: ./configure --prefix=~/mymplayer + x.org dev package ): http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/7168/zrzutekranuoknobeznazwysg7.png http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/1984/zrzutekranuoknobeznazwyqv1.png console output (this "[swscaler @ 0x8930200]Slices start in the middle!" message i only see on latest build): radek@ubudubu:~/mymplayer/bin$ ./mplayer '/media/doc/Radek - Dokumenty/Moje wideo/wozy/golf IV.mpg' MPlayer SVN-r28382-4.3.2 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU E2160 @ 1.80GHz (Family: 6, Model: 15, Stepping: 13) Playing /media/doc/Radek - Dokumenty/Moje wideo/wozy/golf IV.mpg. MPEG-PS file format detected. VIDEO: MPEG1 352x288 (aspect 2) 25.000 fps 1150.0 kbps (143.8 kbyte/s) ========================================================================== Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough VDec: vo config request - 352 x 288 (preferred colorspace: Mpeg PES) Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale... Opening video filter: [scale] The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec. Try appending the scale filter to your filter list, e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp. VDecoder init failed :( Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family Selected video codec: [ffmpeg1] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-1) ========================================================================== ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3 AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 224.0 kbit/15.87% (ratio: 28000->176400) Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3) ========================================================================== AO: [oss] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) Starting playback... VDec: vo config request - 352 x 288 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12) VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0) Movie-Aspect is 1.81:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect. VO: [x11] 352x288 => 522x288 Planar YV12 [swscaler @ 0x8930200]using unscaled yuv420p -> rgb32 special converter [swscaler @ 0x8930200]Slices start in the middle!??% ??% ??,?% 0 0 [swscaler @ 0x8930200]Slices start in the middle! [swscaler @ 0x8930200]Slices start in the middle! [swscaler @ 0x8930200]Slices start in the middle! [swscaler @ 0x8930200]Slices start in the middle! [swscaler @ 0x8930200]Slices start in the middle! [swscaler @ 0x8930200]Slices start in the middle! [swscaler @ 0x8930200]Slices start in the middle! A: 16.5 V: 16.5 A-V: 0.001 ct: 0.003 406/406 3% 1% 0.3% 1 0 Broken frame at 0x7169D A: 16.9 V: 17.0 A-V: -0.141 ct: 0.004 419/419 3% 2% 0.3% 1 0 Exiting... (End of file)