can't play avi file

[Darlene Wallach]

Ric Moore wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 23:51 -0800, Darlene Wallach wrote:
> 
>>Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>>
>>>On 11/24/06, Darlene Wallach <freepalestin at dslextreme.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>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.
>>>>Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x6a)!
>>>>[end output from mplayer]
>>>
>>>
>>>This looks highly unlikely to be a mplayer problem.  You've got some
>>>kind of X resource problem.  Where can we get this file?
>>>
>>
>>Lonni,
>>
>>Here is the link to the low-res 539MB file I downloaded:
>>http://videoarch1.s-inf.de/FP.2005-SS-Giesl.(COt).HD_Videoaufzeichnung/2005-SS-FP.V01.2005-04-12.HDV_low.avi
> 
> 
> I got it to start playing some file about the german language, then I
> got an error message stating that the site was taking too long to
> respond. So, it might be on their end. Ric
> 
> 

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.

Darlene