[MPlayer-users] Problems playing .avi files

[Phil Stracchino]

On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 07:51:30PM +0200, Arpi wrote:
> > -I/usr/include   -DMPG12PLAY  -o vo_mpegpes.o vo_mpegpes.c
> > vo_mpegpes.c:34: ost/dmx.h: No such file or directory
> > vo_mpegpes.c:35: ost/frontend.h: No such file or directory
> > vo_mpegpes.c:36: ost/sec.h: No such file or directory
> > vo_mpegpes.c:37: ost/video.h: No such file or directory
> > vo_mpegpes.c:38: ost/audio.h: No such file or directory
> > make[1]: *** [vo_mpegpes.o] Error 1
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/MPlayer-20011105/libvo'
> > make: *** [libvo/libvo.a] Error 2
> 
> already fixed. cola drinked. :)

Have another cola on me.  :)


> > Detected video codec: [indeo5ds] drv:4 (Intel Indeo 5)
> > ERROR: Couldn't allocate memory for fs segment: Bad file descriptor
> ups.
> 
> > Loading DLL: 'ir50_32.dll'
> > Error no 9
> > VirtualAlloc(0x0x6d8c0000, 851968) failed
> ouch.
> 
> something is really very broken in your system, but i don't know what.
> all memory allocation stuff fails...
> 
> VirtualAlloc() does mmap() of /dev/zero. maybe permissions problem?

Bingo!  We have a winner!  It never for one moment occurred to me to check
for permissions on /dev/zero because I've never heard of anything writing
to it.  I'm guessing the mmap(/dev/zero) trick is to get a pre-zeroed
chunk of memory?



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