Bug#238100: xserver-xfree86: Xvideo seems broken since upgrade to 4.3.0

[Christian Guggenberger <Christian.Guggenberger@physik.uni-regensburg.de>]

On 15.03.2004   11:11 Emmanuel Charpentier wrote:
> Package: xserver-xfree86
> Version: 4.3.0-5
> Severity: normal
> Tags: sid
>
> I use a few applications using XVideo (e. g. xawtv, mjpegtools, etc ...).
> Since my recent update of my sid machine, (specifically, going from 4.2.x to
> 4.3.x), xvideo support seems broken.
> A typical example is :
>
> charpent@yod:~/Captures/DiesIrae$ glav DiesIrae-01.avi DiesIrae-02.avi
> DiesIrae-03.avi
> ++: X Error of failed request:  BadAlloc (insufficient resources for
> operation)
> ++:   Major opcode of failed request:  142 (XVideo)
> ++:   Minor opcode of failed request:  19 ()
> ++:   Serial number of failed request:  21
> ++:   Current serial number in output stream:  22
> ++: lavtools version 1.6.2
> charpent@yod:~/Captures/DiesIrae$
>
> Similarly, xawtv *needs* -noxv and -remote options in order to run (it always
> needed the -remote option ...).
>
> Similarly, I noticed that mplayer crashed and that gvlc stopped displaying
> video. But the error messages were not so specific : the mplayer chash
> reports
> problem with audio module, and gvlc just presents a black screen. Ogle
> crashes
> too, with an error related to xvideo :

Can you post mplayer's crash report, too?
(try 'mplayer -ao null', to avoid the audio problems, at least for sending the 
crash message)

thanks.
 - Christian