Comment 1 for bug 503537

I encounter the same problem. I don't have to load an mp3 to cause the failure, although it fails when I load the mp3 as well.

My machine is -

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.10
Release: 9.10
$ uname -a
Linux host 2.6.31-17-generic #54-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 10 16:20:31 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
$ mplayer|head -1
MPlayer SVN-r29237-4.4.1 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
$ apt-cache policy mplayer
mplayer:
  Installed: 2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-1ubuntu10.1
  Candidate: 2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-1ubuntu10.1
  Version table:
 *** 2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-1ubuntu10.1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/multiverse Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-1ubuntu10 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/multiverse Packages
$ gcc --version
gcc (Ubuntu 4.4.1-4ubuntu8) 4.4.1