On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Douglas Royds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> All video programs crash with this error when I play video > 640x480
> (eg. DVD, DV) - Totem, mplayer, xine, vlc, avidemux, kdenlive, they all
> crash.
>
> This is not a physical limitation of the laptop - these programs all
> worked fine under Feisty. It fell apart with the Gutsy upgrade, I
> believe. mplayer can play DVDs (barely) with the -vo x11 option (this is
> an xv problem), but the laptop doesn't really have the snot for that - I
> need this graphic chip working.
>
> The laptop has a SiS chipset. Since I last posted on this subject, I
> have done a fresh install of Ubuntu Hardy. Interestingly, there is now
> no reference to SiS in xorg.conf at all. Looks like Xorg is doing it all
> automatically, clever wee thing:
>
> $ grep -i SIS /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> (--) PCI:*(1:0:0) Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 630/730 PCI/AGP
> ...
> (--) SIS(0): VideoRAM: 8192 KB
> (II) SIS(0): Using 4096K of framebuffer memory at offset 0K
> (--) SIS(0): Hardware supports two video overlays
> ...
>
> I've attached the rest of the log. It kind of all looks OK to me, but
> I'd be interested to hear if anyone can see any trouble in there.
>
> Thanks,
> Douglas.
Xv is the preferred output. From my googling:
1. Can you allocate more memory to the graphics card in the bios?
Often allocating more of your precious system memory to the graphics
card can help.
2. Does it work to run at a lower resolution during video playback - I
know this is not ideal but how good are your eyes anyway? If so
perhaps make a wrapper script for mplayer that uses xrandr to set a
lower graphics resolution, plays the file and then sets it back again.
Name the script mplayer and put it in your $PATH ahead of where the
real mplayer binary is.
3. Does turning off the MIT-SHM extension off help? One post suggested
this and that it worked. In xorg.conf.
Section "Extensions"
Option "MIT-SHM" "no"
EndSection
(Ref is here and I have not read every line of your or their log files)
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=461410
4. Does -vo sdl provide an acceptable response?
