Comment 38 for bug 111257

I've experienced this problem too, in my normal x-session with beryl+kde all attempts to use Xv fails with the BadAlloc error message.
I've tested to comment out all Options to the intel driver in my xorg.conf, and starting the X server with only an xterm in it, then Xv playback works. If i start beryl it breaks, when i kill beryl it works again. The same goes for xcompmgr.

I've tested with both xserver-xorg-video-intel version 2.0.0-1ubuntu2 and a git snapshot from 2007-06-18 with the same results.