This seems to be caused by too big to be processed by Xv extension. It has been confirmed many times against many products (totem, istanbul...) and bug reports exist in X.org bugzilla.
-- BadAlloc error when playing a video with xv https://launchpad.net/bugs/49360 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
