It's true that totem should try another output method, but the i810/i915 does support that large accelerated video output, so, IMHO, the driver shoud support this at install.
After all, it's only two lines to xorg.conf to solve it. -- Totem receives BadAlloc when playing very large movies using Xv https://launchpad.net/bugs/4229 -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
