Binary package hint: totem
When playing anything (ogg/vorbis, wmv, mpeg, so far) totem is likely to crash on input. Loading a new file might do it. Resizing the window might do it. Clicking "pause" might do it. Then again, it might play 20 files successfully before crashing.
It seems to happen independent of format, or even if the media is audio or video.
The result is that my screen goes black, except for some neon green/pink/whatever garbage around the corner of where the video window was. Whole computer will stay in this state, frozen to any input, until I hard-reboot.
Perhaps worth noting that I also am experiencing the line that runs across the screen, from the top of the movie square. This line also occurs in the mozilla-plugin.
I'm on a Toshiba Satellite 1400, with a Trident Microsystems CyberBlade XPAi1 (rev 82). I've done some reading, and while it looks like the linux driver for the CyberBlade doesn't yet support 3D, it should be stable.
I worry about the driver, though -- when I used Xine with a different set of codecs (on my last ubuntu install on this machine [5.10 I think]) I experienced similar symptoms.
Looks like this guy was having the exact same problem... in 2005!
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