Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 09:38:43 +0100 From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws> Cc: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mplayer: X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation) Message-ID: <20091001083843.GC51344@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20090930204503.GA3865@phenom.cordula.ws> References: <20090930163640.GA45422@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20090930204503.GA3865@phenom.cordula.ws>
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On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:45:03PM +0200, cpghost wrote: > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 05:36:40PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > I've installed port multimedia/mplayer (mplayer-0.99.11_14) > > on 9.0-current ia64. > > > > Trying to play an mpeg video I get endless stream of > > > > X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation) > > X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation) > > V: 7.6 190/190 17% 82% 0.0% 0 0 > > X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation) > > X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation) > > X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation) > > X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation) > > X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation) > > X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation) > > This usually happens when X doesn't have enough resources to > allocate to direct viewing with the xv (XView) driver. This > is very often related to DRM/DRI or memory problems. > > As a work around, try playing the video with the x11 driver > instead: > > $ mplayer -vo x11 somefile.avi yes, this works ok, many thanks I can even view an animation from a remote machine, via ssh -X, but shower, of course. -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423
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