mplayer crashes on start

[xanvader]

Install mplayer, mplayer-gui installed mplayer-skins.
mplayer-skins installed with 2 different skin templates.

Mplayer start gives error message:
Error in skin config file at line 6: PNG read error in /usr/share/mplayer/skins/default/main

main.png and other PNG files are in an indexed color space, as in other skin templates.

All PNG files save in the RGB color space without text (Broken zTXT chunk), solves the problem.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Jerry Quinn (jlquinn)]

Running with strace -e openat:

...
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/mplayer/skins/default/main.png", O_RDONLY) = 15
Error in skin config file at line 6: PNG read error in /usr/share/mplayer/skins/default/main
...

The png file opens fine in eog.

[Jerry Quinn (jlquinn)]

I see this in Ubuntu 18.04.

ii mplayer-gui 2:1.3.0-7build2 amd64 movie player for Unix-like systems (GUI variant)

[James Thomas Moon (jtm-moon-forum-user+launchpad)]

https://askubuntu.com/a/1159551/368900

[James Thomas Moon (jtm-moon-forum-user+launchpad)]

According to bug 1218510 comment #32,

> This bug was fixed in the package mplayer-skins - 3.2build1
> mplayer-skins (3.2build1) cosmic; urgency=medium

[James Thomas Moon (jtm-moon-forum-user+launchpad)]

Then in bug 1218510 comment #33

> The new package http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/multiverse/m/mplayer-skins/mplayer-skins_3.2build1_all.deb still doesn't work