kino, xine, mplayer, totem: X11 error: BadAlloc

[Patton Echols]

On 05/02/2009 06:19 AM, Wybo Dekker wrote:
> p.echols at comcast.net wrote:
>   
>> ----- "Wybo Dekker" <wybo at servalys.nl> wrote:
>>     
>>> I wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Hi, I want to edit some video, tried kino, but it says
>>>>
>>>> The program 'kino' received an X Window System error. This
>>>> probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadAlloc
>>>> (insufficient resources for operation)'.
>>>>         
>>>> xine gave a similar error message:
>>>>
>>>> X Error of failed request:  BadAlloc (insufficient resources for
>>>>
>>>>         
>> operation)
>>     
>>> I found out that avidemux is a much nicer tool than kino; I could
>>> edit a movie with it. However, my favourite  movie-player: mplayer
>>> plays the sound, but shows only a black image and generates many
>>> errors:
>>>
>>> X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
>>>
>>> totem gives the same error message.
>>>       
>> Are you getting these messages about a "known good" video that should
>>  play or does play on other players?
>>     
>
> yes, any video shows the problem
>
>   
>> Or is this the video that you have edited, clipped or whatever and
>> now resaved?
>>     
>
> and the video I edited runs fine when played with mplayer under SuSE-11.0
>
>   
>> In other words, can mplayer and xine play other videos?  If not, then
>> this is a system wide problem.  But if the problem is with the videos
>> you edited with avidemux, then read on.
>>     
>
> so it's a system wide problem indeed.
>
>   
Sounds like it may be this bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/299280
there is a workaround noted there that requires a minor edit of your 
xorg.conf file  I have not had this problem, and you didn't post the 
entire error message, so I can't tell for sure.