Comment 9 for bug 38939

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Paul Sladen (sladen) wrote : Re: MPlayer interrupted by signal 6 in module: vo_check_events

The BadAlloc because mplayer is requesting more resources than the video card can provide. In this case, it doesn't have enough spare RAM on the video card to allocate 1024x768 Xvideo buffers.

Another time this happens is if a decode size is requested that is larger than the hardware can cope with.