[vlc] vout x11

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

This problem was fixed in more recent versions.

On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:54:00 +0200, maxime louvel <m.louvel at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> when I try to play some movies on my laptop I need to use the flag
> --vout=x11.
> If not it just crashes with the following message :
> 
> [????????] x11 video output error: X11 request 132.19 failed with error
> code
> 11:/tmp/pouet
>  BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
> X Error of failed request:  BadAlloc (insufficient resources for
> operation)
>   Major opcode of failed request:  132 (XVideo)
>   Minor opcode of failed request:  19 ()
>   Serial number of failed request:  82
>   Current serial number in output stream:  83
> 
> 
> My guess is that my graphic card hasn't enough memory to render the
movie,
> is that correct ?
> what is surprising is that I don't think I'm ever able to render a movie
> (even a small one)
> 
> when I set the flag --vout=x11 how well my graphic card is used by vlc ?
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Maxime
> 
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