[MPlayer-users] mplayer 1.0pre5: error when playing an .avi file

[wwp]

Hello Jan,


On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 21:45:57 +0300 Jan Knutar <jknutar at nic.fi> wrote:

> On Thursday 16 September 2004 21:10, wwp wrote:
> 
> > I'm failing to play a video using mplayer 1.0pre5 (glibc 2.2.5, gcc 3.2), the
> > video file is available online: http://www.freedesktop.org/~jg/xorg.avi. This is
> > the first time that I encounter such error.
> 
> > VIDEO:  [DIVX]  858x774  24bpp  25.000 fps  4041.2 kbps (493.3 kbyte/s)
> 
> > VO: [xv] 858x774 => 858x774 Planar YV12 
> > X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
> 
> I am guessing that you use Xorg server. There is a known bug in it that affects
> xvideo, especially with higher resolution stuff. Ironic that a file called xorg.avi
> would trigger it ;-)

Well, wrong, I'm using XFree86 4.3.0, from SuSE 8.1's updated rpms. The video
is, you're right, a demonstration of some Xorg capabilities.


Regards,

-- 
wwp