problems: segfault, BadAlloc

[Russell McOrmond]

  Sorry - I sent this last night but was not yet a subscriber, so it
didn't likely go through.   Trying again now that I'm subscribed.

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Main points:
  - Can mount DVD disks.
  - Can hear audio track with 'vlc --novideo'
  - can view MPEG video files
  - can't view video from DVD disk.



  Here is a general listing of the problems I've seen.   Any suggestions
would be greatly appreciated.


  a) If I use the binary vlc-0.2.83-1.rh7.i386.rpm from the download
website http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download.html I get the following:

[russell at agra dvd]# vlc
warning: extended instructions unsupported, some optimizations will be
disabled
upgrade to kernel 2.4.x to get rid of this warning
Segmentation fault
[russell at agra dvd]# uname -a
Linux agra.int.flora.ca 2.4.3-12 #1 Fri Jun 8 13:35:30 EDT 2001 i586
unknown

  If I run it with 'gdb vlc' I get:
Starting program: /usr/bin/vlc 
[New Thread 1024 (LWP 21142)]

Program received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction.
[Switching to Thread 1024 (LWP 21142)]
0x804bdf3 in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:31
31	../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c: No such file or directory.




  b) If I run a vlc that I compiled on my own machine (Without the
--enable-qt as I don't seem to have the right libraries on my system, but
otherwise the same as the .src.rpm) I get:

[russell at agra ~]# vlc dvd:/dev/dvd
VideoLAN Client - version 0.2.83 Ourumov - (C)1996-2001 VideoLAN

Gdk-ERROR **: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
  serial 42 error_code 11 request_code 144 minor_code 19


  I am able to play MPEG videos downloaded from the net without problem,
and am able to switch to full-screen and other such things.



The DVD's I've tested on are:

  - The Mummy Returns  - supposedly CSS-free
  - AntiTrust          - supposedly encoded in CSS


  I downloaded both the VLC client at http://www.videolan.org/ and the
OMSclient at http://www.linuxvideo.org/oms/ , and both had similar
problems.

  System is an AMD-K6 350 with 256M of ram, and a Matrox Millennium G200
AGP video card.  This is a RedHAt 7.x based system - upgraded from a 6.x a
little while ago.

  The problem is related to video somehow (Card or related drivers/etc) as
I can run "vlc --novideo" and hear the audio-track from both CD's.

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