[MPlayer-users] mplayer, x264 and X11 BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter)

[Adam Jacob Muller]

On Oct 30, 2008, at 11:50 PM, Adam Jacob Muller wrote:

>
> On Oct 30, 2008, at 5:45 AM, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 6:01 AM, Adam Jacob Muller
>> <lists-mplayer-users at adam.gs> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I'm getting no video (-fs gives black borders with the background
>>> showing where video should be) with mplayer and with matroska-
>>> containered x264 files
>>>
>>> I am using -vo xv and that works fine with other formats (avi/wmv/
>>> flv/
>>> mpg/others).
>>> but with mkv files I get the errors below, if I switch to -vo x11  
>>> the
>>> video does play, but with the associated huge performance issues.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Any ideas at all would be hugely appreciated!
>>>
>>> Mplayer is:
>>> MPlayer dev-SVN-r27673-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team
>>
>> Please SVN up, I think this problem is fixed. If it doesn't, then
>> check if your graphic card has enough VRAM, and check what happens if
>> you disable things like compiz/3d desktop effects...
>>
>> Guillaume
>
> Hi Guillaume,		
>
> What's "enough"
> 01:00.0 Display controller: 3DLabs Permedia II 2D+3D (rev 01)
> 	Subsystem: Accelgraphics Inc. AccelStar II
> 	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
> Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
> 	Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
> 	Latency: 64 (48000ns min, 48000ns max)
> 	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
> 	Region 0: Memory at e3000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
> 	Region 1: Memory at e2800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8M]
> 	Region 2: Memory at e2000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8M]
>
>
> I think it has *cough*16M*cough*
>
> Right, i know I'm insane I guess, so I should just not expect it to
> work at all?, mplayer seems to handle decoding (if it is even decoding
> with this error) with no issues?
>
> That said, mplayer and x11 are the only things running on this box
> (just x11, no window manager at all).
>
> -Adam


Newest SVN had no effect, same issue.


-Adam