[vlc-devel] Re: VLC on Windows, direct3d video output error: Failed to create picture surface.

[Damien Fouilleul]

 > I've also had a "hr=0x8876017C", whatever that is.

this is the error code for D3DERR_OUTOFVIDEOMEMORY

your video card seems a bit underpowered

Damien

Joerg wrote:
> When I'm trying to playback video, only a black frame in the size of 
> the video shortly pops up, just do disappear again. Since I need the 
> Java Bindings I'm forced to compile my own version of VLC, but I did 
> so with cygwin and following the instructions in INSTALL.win32 to the 
> letter. The same problem existed when I tried the precompiled version 
> of the Java bindings posted in this list. However, having the "real" 
> vlc.exe to test it I noticed, that the problem is there with the 
> regular program as well.
> (You might want to go to the forum post [3], it's easier to read)
>
> VLC provides the following output on the console:
>
>> [00000554] direct3d video output error: Failed to create picture 
>> surface. (hr=0x8876086c)
>> [00000554] direct3d video output error: Direct3D picture pool 
>> initialization failed !
>> [00000554] main video output error: video output creation failed
>> [00000554] main video output error: cannot delete object (554, 
>> (null)) with children
>> [00000553] main decoder error: failed to create video output
>
>
> I've also had a "hr=0x8876017C", whatever that is.
>
> I'm using vlc-snapshot-20060816, 
> contrib-20060619-win32-bin-gcc-3.4.5-only with an up-to-date cygwin 
> (gcc version 3.4.4 (cygming special) (gdc 0.12, using dmd 0.125))
>
> Configure call for vlc was (according to INSTALL.win32)
>
>>  ./bootstrap && \
>>  PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/win32/lib/pkgconfig \
>>  CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/win32/include -I/usr/win32/include/ebml" \
>>  LDFLAGS=-L/usr/win32/lib \
>>  CC="gcc -mno-cygwin" CXX="g++ -mno-cygwin" \
>>  ./configure \
>>      --disable-gtk \
>>      --enable-nls --enable-sdl --with-sdl-config-path=/usr/win32/bin \
>>      --enable-ffmpeg --with-ffmpeg-mp3lame --with-ffmpeg-faac \
>>      --with-ffmpeg-zlib --enable-faad --enable-flac --enable-theora \
>>      --with-wx-config-path=/usr/win32/bin \
>>      --with-freetype-config-path=/usr/win32/bin \
>>      --with-fribidi-config-path=/usr/win32/bin \
>>      --enable-live555 --with-live555-tree=/usr/win32/live.com \
>>      --enable-caca --with-caca-config-path=/usr/win32/bin \
>>      --with-xml2-config-path=/usr/win32/bin \
>>      --with-dvdnav-config-path=/usr/win32/bin \
>>      --disable-cddax --disable-vcdx --enable-goom \
>>      --enable-twolame --enable-dvdread \
>>      --enable-debug \
>>      --enable-java-bindings
>
> I'm providing the configure output ([1], 31KB) and the compile output 
> ([2], 504 KB) online, although they don't contain an error I could spot.
>
> Could someone please point me to a reason for this problem or give me 
> a hint what other information might be required to solve this problem?
>
> Links:
> [1] http://tmp.noctis.de/vlc/2006-08-22-log-configure.txt
> [2] http://tmp.noctis.de/vlc/2006-08-22-log-compile.txt
> [3] Forum Post: http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=25654
>
> Regards,
> Jörg


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