I also had ffmpeg crash while encoding an AVI file produced from a DV camera by Windows Movie Maker.
This worked first time round when the AVI was stored on local machine, but the second AVI was too large to fit on the local HDD; so I mounted the windows machine with smbfs and tried it that way. I have tried twice, and both times it crashes. I've attached the problem report. ** Attachment added: "ubuntu edgy crash report" http://librarian.launchpad.net/5571970/_usr_bin_ffmpeg.1000.crash -- crash when ffmeg transform an avi file https://launchpad.net/bugs/70631 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs