hi,

i installed FC6 recently. i installed mplayer from a rpm repositary. the problem is that when i run mplayer with the default options i get the error msg X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)

when i run mplayer with -vo x11 option the video plays but when i try to make it fullscreen the clip iam playing does not scale. i used the -zoom option and i got fullscreen to work but iam getting it in frames. i believe that -vo xv is the optimal output driver which is not working for some reason.

please help me to get mplayer working somehow. thanks.

xv is the generally preferred option within X, and it is massively more efficient than X11 output, which is very basic and cpu intensive. the xv output requires funtional XVideo extensions to be running though, the status of which you can see by runnign xvinfo. show us what the output of that is. also there are other options (run mplayer -vo help to list them all) such as xover, which is also good and generic, but might still require xv extensions, not sure off hand.

hi,
i tried all the options but only -vo x11 worked. heres the output of xvinfo
[OUTPUT]
X-Video Extension version 2.2
screen #0
Adaptor #0: "Savage Streams Engine"
number of ports: 1
port base: 73
operations supported: PutImage
supported visuals:
depth 24, visualID 0x23
depth 24, visualID 0x24
depth 24, visualID 0x25
depth 24, visualID 0x26
depth 24, visualID 0x27
depth 24, visualID 0x28
depth 24, visualID 0x29
depth 24, visualID 0x2a
number of attributes: 6
"XV_COLORKEY" (range 0 to 16777215)
client settable attribute
client gettable attribute (current value is 66046)
"XV_BRIGHTNESS" (range -128 to 127)
client settable attribute
client gettable attribute (current value is 0)
"XV_CONTRAST" (range 0 to 255)
client settable attribute
client gettable attribute (current value is 128)
"XV_SATURATION" (range 0 to 255)
client settable attribute
client gettable attribute (current value is 128)
"XV_HUE" (range -180 to 180)
client settable attribute
client gettable attribute (current value is 0)
"XV_VERTICAL_INTERPOLATION" (range 0 to 1)
client settable attribute
client gettable attribute (current value is 0)
maximum XvImage size: 1024 x 1024
Number of image formats: 6
id: 0x32595559 (YUY2)
guid: 59555932-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71
bits per pixel: 16
number of planes: 1
type: YUV (packed)
id: 0x32315659 (YV12)
guid: 59563132-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71
bits per pixel: 12
number of planes: 3
type: YUV (planar)
id: 0x30323449 (I420)
guid: 49343230-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71
bits per pixel: 12
number of planes: 3
type: YUV (planar)
id: 0x35315652 (RV15)
guid: 52563135-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
bits per pixel: 16
number of planes: 1
type: RGB (packed)
depth: 15
red, green, blue masks: 0x1f, 0x3e0, 0x7c00
id: 0x36315652 (RV16)
guid: 52563136-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
bits per pixel: 16
number of planes: 1
type: RGB (packed)
depth: 16
red, green, blue masks: 0x1f, 0x7e0, 0xf800
id: 0x31313259 (Y211)
guid: 59323131-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71
bits per pixel: 6
number of planes: 3
type: YUV (packed)
[/OUTPUT]

wat do i do. please help me. iam comprising on the quality of the movie.