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

[Jan Knutar]

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 ;-)


A fix was supposedly comitted very recently to Xorg cvs to fix it,
http://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=474