please help: INPUT_MAX_ALLOCATION reached!!!

The DJ d.hartman at student.utwente.nl
Tue Sep 10 16:57:55 CEST 2002


on 10-09-2002 16:45, Jochen Steinbicker at j.steinbicker at rz.hu-berlin.de
wrote:

> hi DJ
> you too get a input_max_allocation reached error on MacOSX? Or are you just
> having problems playing some divx stuff?
> best,
> js

No, the same error. And I have a G4 400.

DJ

> At 15:27 10.09.2002 +0200, you wrote:
>> on 10-09-2002 15:11, Laurent Aimar at fenrir at via.ecp.fr wrote:
>> 
>>> On Tue, Sep 10, 2002, Jochen Steinbicker wrote:
>>>> THE PROBLEM: trying to play a particular .avi file with divx5 content (no
>>>> audio!) makes vlc 0.4.4 on MacOSX (PB G3-400) crash; massage is:
>>>> "INPUT_MAX_ALLOCATION reached"
>>> 
>>>> - it is not a problem with processor load; there are movies with higher
>>>> compression which vlc plays neatly
>>>> - it is not related to b-frames
>>> 
>>> Hi, It would be hard to help you. If you succed in compiling vlc for
>>> MacOSX it would be easier( I can send you some patch to see where is the
>>> problem ...)
>>> 
>>> I 'm still thinking that it could a problem with you processor load.
>>> I've you try to play it on a more powerfull computer ? ( I don't know
>>> why, but I v'e already seen some divx5 encoded movies that eat a lot of
>>> processor. Could you try to encode this movie with the same parameters
>>> with XviD or ffmpeg ? )
>> 
>> I've seen it too, even on low quality divx.
>>> 
>>> Does it segfault after only a few seconds ? If so, you could upload a
>>> part of this movie, I will have a look at it.
>> 
>> Another problem I encounter is that after an hour my sound starts to get
>> "dirty". Cracks and all. It gradually increase from non existent in the
>> beginning to very much annoying after an hour and a half or so in the movie.
>> 
>> It looks to me like some memory leak or an offset problem or so. Since I
>> haven't heard anyone else about this, I think it is a MacOSX issue as far as
>> I can determine I have it will all sound files. But most definetly with mp3.
>> 
>> DJ
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