problems: segfault, BadAlloc

[Russell McOrmond]

On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Christophe Massiot wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 06, 2001, Russell McOrmond wrote:
> 
> >   System is an AMD-K6 350 with 256M of ram, and a Matrox Millennium G200
>                  ^^^^^^
> This is your problem. Compile the source with --disable-pentiumpro, or
> upgrade to the latest CVS version, which gets rid of this problem.

  I believe this is the segfault problem you were thinking of. I did
recompile (again tonight with --disable-pentiumpro to see if that would
make a difference) and still get the "insufficient resources".

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

module: browsing `.'
module: browsing `plugins'
module: browsing `/usr/lib/videolan/vlc'
module: locking module `gnome'
intf: interface initialized
input: playlist item `dvd://dev/dvd'
module: locking module `dvd'
module: locking module `motionmmx'
module: locking module `idctmmx'
module: locking module `downmix3dn'
module: locking module `imdct3dn'
vpar: no vout present, spawning one
module: locking module `xvideo'
vout: video display initialized (720x576, 15/16 bpp)
module: locking module `yuvmmx'
aout: no aout present, spawning one
module: locking module `dsp'
vout warning: late picture skipped (0x81f8dd0)
Gdk-ERROR **: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
  serial 42 error_code 11 request_code 144 minor_code 19


> Anyway K6 350 is waaay too slooow to decode a DVD.

  In this case I would be expecting the image to freeze every once in a
while.  In this case I'm getting a Gdk-ERROR.

  Before I go out and purchase a faster processor, I want to know that
this will resolve the problem.  I find the processor is beyond-enough for
everything else I do on this machine at the moment.

  You may want "minimum requirements" or similar to be in the FAQ - I
suspect this is something that not everyone knows.

  It may seem silly, but include a DVD-ROM in the list.  Until I started
this project I was under the misconception that traditional CDROM drives
would work.  Now that I've mounted a DVD and noticed over 8G of data that
this idea was out-to-lunch.

> -- 
> Christophe Massiot.
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