can't play avi file

[Darlene Wallach]

Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 10:59:40PM -0800, Darlene Wallach wrote:
> 
>>taharka wrote:
>>
>>>Ric,
>>>
>>>On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 21:40 -0500, Ric Moore wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 21:29 -0500, taharka wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>How do,
>>>>>On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 21:09 -0500, Ric Moore wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 23:31 -0800, Darlene Wallach wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>It is a video of a session of a course on Haskell, a functional
>>>>>>>programming language, at a German University.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I'm very disappointed I can't play the videos on my computer. I
>>>>>>>was looking forward to watching the videos to learn more about
>>>>>>>Haskell. Someone who has watched some of the videos recommends
>>>>>>>them highly.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Just for grins I tried other packages like Xine, Mplayer, VLC,
>>>>>>Kaboodle... nothing worked. Have you managed to get it working?
>>>>>>I didn't dnload it, I just tried to stream it in Firefox. Ric
>>>>>
>>>>>Worked for me using Firefox 2.0 on FC3 using the Mplayer
>>>>>plugin. Also, downloaded the file, burned it onto CDRW & it plays
>>>>>in Mplayer.
>>>>
>>>>Crap. No... just saying crap as in exasperation, not to you!! That
>>>>is one of the downsides of a complete install. There is some lib
>>>>file somewhere that will decipher that thing and I'm clearly
>>>>missing it. I hate when that happens. Evidently Darlene is missing
>>>>it as well. Got a clue? Ric
>>>
>>>
>>>No clue at all :-( Mplayer/plug in versions maybe? You could
>>>download the file, run it through Mplayer via the cli & see what
>>>errors it spits out.  Note, if using wget to download this file,
>>>you'll be SOL. wget doesn't seem to like the () characters in the
>>>file name/path :-(
>>>
>>
>>taharka,
>>
>>This is what I get using mplayer via the command line:
>>$ mplayer 2005-SS-FP.V01.2005-04-12.HDV_low.avi
>>MPlayer 1.0rc1-3.4.4 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
> 
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> Where did you get that mplayer and what distro are you using it on?
> This is not FC6, FC5 or FC4, it could be FC3 or RHEL4.
> 
> FWIW using ATrpms' packages the file plays OK on FC5 and FC6.
> 

I have FC3 and I don't remember if mplayer came from extras or
dag or which package.

Darlene