VLC/mplayer/totem mkv playback error

[itix]

I have a movie clip in mkv which won't play. I tried it in all the three media players I have and none of them worked. It's just this particular MKV and the only significant difference between this one and a working mkv that I have is that the non-working has it's sound in AAC and the other are mpeg1 layer 3 (mp3). I don't think it is the sound though because you can sometimes hear about half a second of music in the beginning before it crashes.

output VLC:
VLC media player 0.8.6c Janus
X Error of failed request: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 141 (XVideo)
Minor opcode of failed request: 19 ()
Serial number of failed request: 83
Current serial number in output stream: 84


Totem output:
sh: jackd: not found
sh: jackd: not found
The program 'totem' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'.
(Details: serial 56 error_code 11 request_code 141 minor_code 19)
(Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)


output Mplayer:
2:1.0~rc1-0ubuntu13.2 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1.60GHz (Family: 6, Model: 13, Stepping: 8)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing *****.
[mkv] Track ID 1: video (V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC) "*****", -vid 0
[mkv] Track ID 2: audio (A_AAC) "2.0 AAC", -aid 0, -alang jpn
[mkv] Track ID 3: subtitles (S_TEXT/***) "***", -sid 0, -slang eng
[mkv] Track ID 4: subtitles (S_TEXT/UTF8) "SRT", -sid 1, -slang eng
[mkv] Will play video track 1
Matroska file format detected.
VIDEO: [avc1] 1280x720 24bpp 23.976 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
xscreensaver_disable: Could not find XScreenSaver window.
GNOME screensaver disabled
================================================== ========================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
================================================== ========================
================================================== ========================
Forced audio codec: mad
Opening audio decoder: [faad] AAC (MPEG2/4 Advanced Audio Coding)
FAAD: compressed input bitrate missing, assuming 128kbit/s!
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/8.33% (ratio: 16000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [faad] afm: faad (FAAD AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio) decoder)
================================================== ========================
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 1280 x 720 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [xv] 1280x720 => 1280x720 Planar YV12
aspect: Warning: no suitable new res found!
aspect: Warning: no suitable new res found!
aspect: Warning: no suitable new res found!
aspect: Warning: no suitable new res found!
X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)?,?% 0 0


MPlayer interrupted by signal 6 in module: vo_check_events
- MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in your
gcc version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault, please read
DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there. We can't
and won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a
possible bug.
gnome_screensaver_control()

EDIT: ***** = my file path
*** = the curse A-S-S which was included in the output...

[stek79]

Hi,
same problem here. I'm using Hardy up-to-date.

It seems to be a quite common problem, I've read that some have solved it (xorg bug?). Regarding my self, I still have to live with it - I can get rid of it disabling compiz, though.

If you use mplayer -vo x11 , you should be able to view your clip, but with a huge CPU utilization penalty.

Anyone knows how to solve that?

[itix]

An update:
The file mentioned plays on my (1,5 days old =) Eee PC (EeeXubuntu) using totem and xine but I have no sound.
I'm suspecting missing libraries.

Info on file:
Dimensions: 1280 x720
Codec: H264
Audio Codec: MPEG-4 AAC audio
Sample rate: 48 000 Hz