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[Doug McMahon <664848@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The sample provided is a VC-1 wmv (or at least appears to be
By default mplayer will use dmo if available, some VC-1/wmv3 files can't be decoded properly, most others can though - 
ffmpeg can decode VC-1/wmv3 and at this point does a better job on most if not all.

So if you went for example this it should play back fine
 mplayer  -vc ffwmv3 /path/to/yourfile

(also note that ffwmv3vdpau will  work on your sample - at least here
You can if desired set mplayer to use ffmpeg first with this in your .mplayer/config
vfm=ffmpeg

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mplayer crashes opening wmv files encoded with DMO codec
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/664848
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