Totem Movie Player crashes when opening AVI movie file

[johannes]

Binary package hint: totem

Audio is not working on my system yet, so maybe this could have caused the crash. Player just closed, no warning or error message.
File type I tried to open: AVI
PC: Thinkpad T61
OS Version: Gutsy

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Jul 7 13:17:32 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem
NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal
Package: totem-gstreamer 2.19.4-0ubuntu4
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcCmdline: totem
ProcCwd: /home/johannes
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 5
SourcePackage: totem
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
 _XError () from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
 _XReply () from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
 XSync () from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
 ?? ()
Title: totem crashed with signal 5 in _XError()
Uname: Linux johannes-laptop 2.6.22-7-generic #1 SMP Mon Jun 25 17:07:55 GMT 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy lpadmin netdev plugdev powerdev scanner video

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:gdk_x_error (display=<value optimized out>, error=0x43805540) at /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.11.5/gdk/x11/gdkmain-x11.c:641
_XError (dpy=0xda11f0, rep=<value optimized out>) at ../../src/XlibInt.c:2907
_XReply (dpy=0xda11f0, rep=0x43805690, extra=0, discard=1) at ../../src/XlibInt.c:1833
XSync (dpy=0xda11f0, discard=0) at ../../src/Sync.c:48
gst_xvimagesink_xvimage_put (xvimagesink=0xda2030, xvimage=0x0) at xvimagesink.c:820

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug. Does it happen every time you try to play an avi? What videocard and driver do you use?

[johannes (johannes-kuhs)]

It seems to happen every time I try to play an AVI file. I haven't tried other video files yet. The same thing happened when I tried playing an AVI file with VLC player. So it's probably related to the video driver or something else.

I'm using Intel X3100 integrated graphics with latest Intel driver.

[Jonh Wendell (wendell)]

This happened with me too while trying to watch a DVD:

wendell@wendell-laptop:~$ totem /media/cdrom0
sh: jackd: not found
No accelerated IMDCT transform found
No accelerated IMDCT transform found

Gdk-ERROR **: 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 48 error_code 11 request_code 140 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.)
aborting...
Captura trace/breakpoint (core dumped)

[Rick Seymour (mailinglists-rickseymour)]

To fix this problem I loaded up
gstreamer-properties

Selected the Video tab and changed the Video Plugin from Autodetect to X Window System (No Xv)

[etrombly (etrombly)]

I tried the fix from rick still having the same error as the op but it is on fiesty with the gutsy intel drivers, On a dell 1420n.

[Fabien Lusseau (fabien-beosfrance)]

The better for me is to desactivate compiz ... it work perfectly without compiz ...

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

I experienced this same bug when running the Tribe 4 Live CD and trying to watch "Experience Ubuntu" example file.

[Fabien Lusseau (fabien-beosfrance)]

In gutsy it is not the i810 driver by default but the intel graphic driver ...

For me this bug is of the intel driver and not the i810 ...

[unggnu (unggnu)]

Hardy Heron Alpha5 was recently released. It contains an updated version of the Intel driver. You can download and try the new Hardy Heron Alpha5 Live CD from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/hardy/alpha-5/ . If you can, please verify if this bug still exists or not and report back your results. General information regarding the release can also be found here: http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/hardy/alpha5 .

If Totem still crashes please attach the following files and outputs:

/etc/X11/xorg.conf
/var/log/Xorg.0.log
output of lspci -vvnn

[unggnu (unggnu)]

Btw. -i810 driver is deprecated since Gutsy and shouldn't be used anymore if the -intel driver works fine. Afaik LinearAlloc, VideoRam or CacheLine options aren't needed anymore. Btw. Xv can only be used by one app but all other started video applications switch automatically back to standard xorg video output at least for me. This works fine in Gutsy so a recheck with a Gutsy Live CD should be enough. Maybe the xorg.conf has to be regenerated.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

There's been a number of fixes to -intel wrt video playback, and I suspect this issue is gone. If not, please feel free to reopen, but make sure to include the following as a minimum:

  1. Backtrace of the video player that crashes. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash

  2. Your /var/log/Xorg.0.log

  3. The output of lspci -vvnn