Comment 3 for bug 690169

I cannot reproduce the crash with FFmpeg 0.5.2 (from Debian Squeeze). Instead, the VLC 1.1.5 process will bring my computer into thrashing hell, as the file claims to have video of a preposterously large resolution. I get the same thrashing with FFplay 0.5.2. It could be the crash occurs after running out of memory, but I assume Dan would have mentioned such a caveat.

VLC 1.2.0 already avoid the issue by discarding overly large resolution.

What happens if you pass the file to Lucid's version of ffplay (ffmpeg binary package)? Unfortunately, I have no Lucid system at hand.