[MPlayer-users] strange vidix problem (memory allocation failure)

Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski dominik at rangers.eu.org
Sun Nov 7 16:00:52 CET 2004


On Sunday, 07 November 2004 at 14:52, Christian Kröner wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> when running mplayer -vo xvidix -v some.avi I get the output below. I
> see that vidixlib has got memory allocation problems, but I dont know
> what I can do to fix this. I'm running into this problem since I
> recently switched from Debian to Gentoo. While on Debian vidix worked
> pretty well, on Gentoo it doesn't. I'm having svgalib_helper loaded but
> this problem occurs even when running mplayer as root. I would be happy
> if someone could help me, since the xv driver doesn't work very well for
> me.

It's a known problem when using xvidix with svgalib_helper. See bugzilla.
There's no fix for the time being.

R.

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