can't play avi file

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 11/25/06, Kenny Gow <kgfedora at swbell.net> wrote:
> Darlene Wallach wrote:
> > Kenny Gow wrote:
> >> Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 11/24/06, Darlene Wallach <freepalestin at dslextreme.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)?,?% 0 0
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> MPlayer interrupted by signal 6 in module: vo_check_events
> >>>> - MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
> >>>>    It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in
> >>>> your
> >>>>    gcc version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault, please read
> >>>>    DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there. We
> >>>> can't and
> >>>>    won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a
> >>>> possible bug.
> >>>> Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x6a)!
> >>>> [end output from mplayer]
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> This looks highly unlikely to be a mplayer problem.  You've got some
> >>> kind of X resource problem.  Where can we get this file?
> >>>
> >> I would check if the following packages are installed:
> >>
> >> xvidcore
> >> libXv
> >>
> >> --Kenny
> >>
> >
> > Kenny,
> >
> > This is what rpm says:
> >
> > $ rpm -qa | grep xvidcore
> > xvidcore-1.1.2-1.fc3.rf
> >
> > $ rpm -qa | grep libXv
> > libXvMCW-0.9.3-1.1.fc3.rf
> >
> > Darlene
> >
> Well, I'm on FC6 and when I go into the archives and look for package
> libXv for FC3, I don't see it. But it does exist for FC6. Packaging
> might have changed a lot between FC6 and FC3.
>
> Do you have the libXv libraries (maybe from some other package):
>
> /usr/lib/libXv.so.1
> /usr/lib/libXv.so.1.0.0
>
> If not I don't know what else to check. I was just guessing that
> perhaps the error was caused by not having the dynamic library
> for the XVideo extension (libXv). But I'm on FC6 and using
> mplayer from livna and a custom compiled version of mplayer.
>
> I also downloaded a few MB of that video and it started to
> play OK for me with mplayer. Have you been able to play
> any other HD videos of that resolution?

Same here, it plays fine with the nvidia X driver on my system (FC6).
I suspect you're hitting either a hardware limit or an X driver limit.
 What kind of graphics card do you have?

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