video players fail with BadAlloc error

[navaburo]

Morning folks,
I have run into the following error on my FC9 install:

When attempting to play video files with mplayer or vlc (installed via livna.development) I get no video (only some static) and the following error spammed many times over:

"X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)"

I have plenty of ram (1 gb), and free hdd space (40gb).

I believe this is an internal X11 issue... but I am not sure.

Perhaps this mplayer and vlc were compiled to work with X11 but I use Xorg?

Any help would be appreciated greatly,
navaburo

[Seve]

Hello:
Have you searched through bugzilla yet ?
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/query.cgi?format=simple

Seve

[navaburo]

So I discovered that mplayer -vo x11 does produce video and no errors.

however it is EXTREEMELY LAGGY, even with 320x200 video!

I believe I have this issue because I am using the open source radeon driver with a FireGL V5600 card. Fglrx should work fine.

However, any more tips would be appreciated.

And yes, i poked around Bugzilla.

[rdieter]

I'd suggest trying another video player, including totem, kaffeine.

If going that route, and since you're already using (patent encumbered) mplayer, you'll likely be interested in fetching additional codec support from rpm.livna.org in the form of:
gstreamer-ffmpeg and/or xine-lib-extras-nonfree

[rdieter]

Otherwise, the issues you describe seem to indicate that your X driver lacks full Xvideo support (and possibly other niceties).