can't play avi file

[Axel Thimm]

On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 10:59:40PM -0800, Darlene Wallach wrote:
> taharka wrote:
> >Ric,
> >
> >On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 21:40 -0500, Ric Moore wrote:
> >>On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 21:29 -0500, taharka wrote:
> >>>How do,
> >>>On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 21:09 -0500, Ric Moore wrote:
> >>>>On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 23:31 -0800, Darlene Wallach wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>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.
> >>>>
> >>>>Just for grins I tried other packages like Xine, Mplayer, VLC,
> >>>>Kaboodle... nothing worked. Have you managed to get it working?
> >>>>I didn't dnload it, I just tried to stream it in Firefox. Ric
> >>>
> >>>Worked for me using Firefox 2.0 on FC3 using the Mplayer
> >>>plugin. Also, downloaded the file, burned it onto CDRW & it plays
> >>>in Mplayer.
> >>
> >>Crap. No... just saying crap as in exasperation, not to you!! That
> >>is one of the downsides of a complete install. There is some lib
> >>file somewhere that will decipher that thing and I'm clearly
> >>missing it. I hate when that happens. Evidently Darlene is missing
> >>it as well. Got a clue? Ric
> >
> >
> >No clue at all :-( Mplayer/plug in versions maybe? You could
> >download the file, run it through Mplayer via the cli & see what
> >errors it spits out.  Note, if using wget to download this file,
> >you'll be SOL. wget doesn't seem to like the () characters in the
> >file name/path :-(
> >
> 
> taharka,
> 
> This is what I get using mplayer via the command line:
> $ mplayer 2005-SS-FP.V01.2005-04-12.HDV_low.avi
> MPlayer 1.0rc1-3.4.4 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team

> 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.

Where did you get that mplayer and what distro are you using it on?
This is not FC6, FC5 or FC4, it could be FC3 or RHEL4.

FWIW using ATrpms' packages the file plays OK on FC5 and FC6.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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