Totem crashes while playing xvid encoded files and DVDs

[Saad Bin Javed]

Binary package hint: totem

I'm using Jaunty on a low end system (1.5Ghz, 256MB RAM). Totem crashes while trying to play DVDs and Xvid encoded AVIs. ffmpeg is not installed on this system, just basic Ubuntu install with restricted-extras. Other types of AVI files (like DivX encoded) seem to work fine. I've tried to play the file in VLC, Totem, MPlayer...VLC and Totem crash while MPlayer gives sound but no video. If launched from terminal totem exits with the following output:

/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/gdata/tlslite/utils/cryptomath.py:9: DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead
  import sha
The program 'totem' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'.
  (Details: serial 73 error_code 11 request_code 132 minor_code 19)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

I've tried the file on a faster machine and it plays okay. So does in WinXP on this system. Maybe xvid codec requires further optimization to run on low spec machines???

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: totem 2.26.1-0ubuntu5
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: totem
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-13-generic i686

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your bug report. Please try to obtain a backtrace http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and attach the file to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

[Saad Bin Javed (sbjaved)]

Here is the backtrace output you requested. I followed instructions as provided on the wiki (which need to be more user-friendly btw)...I hope this helps.

[Saad Bin Javed (sbjaved)]

Here is the backtrace for vlc.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

not a totem issue if vlc crashes too

[Saad Bin Javed (sbjaved)]

The file plays in both Totem and VLC in another computer with faster specs. So is it an X issue?

[IKT (ikt)]

Researching this specific error: 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'.

Results in this:

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"

Full explaination/report at: http://www.pubbs.net/freebsd/200909/128736/

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Please Dante do not reassign bugs without giving a good explanation about it, thanks.

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