Why I'm not giving up yet - Was: I give up on Fedora 7 going back to FC6

[Andrew Parker]

On 6/10/07, Jeffrey Ross <jeff at bubble.org> wrote:
> Next question is I can't get a video player working, I loaded mplayer
> from the livna archives and when I run it I get the following error:
>
> AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
> Starting playback...
> VDec: vo config request - 512 x 384 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
> VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
> Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
> VO: [xv] 512x384 => 512x384 Planar YV12
> X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)?,?% 0
> 0
> X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)?,?% 0
> 0
> X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)?,?% 0 0
> (goes until I stop the playback)
> I then get the audio but no video
> I tried adding to the Device section of the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file:
>         Option "VideoRam" "65536"
>         Option "CacheLines" "1980"
> But that made no difference.
>
> The video card is an Intel video card built into the motherboard.  lspci
> reports the following:
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82G965 Integrated
> Graphics Controller (rev 02)
>
> suggestions?

Looks like the video output driver (VO: [xv]) is borked.  You could
try using a different one.  You can get a list with "mplayer -vo help"
and then trying one listed, e.g. "mplayer -vo xv".  Listed drivers
depend on how mplayer is compiled, so you may or may not have xv.