Binary package hint: mplayer
With default settings, on default Karmic installation, with compiz enabled mplayer can freeze whole system, crash itself or compiz when user toggles movie to full screen.
Some output from mplayer:
[vdpau] Error when calling vdp_output_surface_create: The system does not have enough resources to complete the requested operation at this time.
[vdpau] Error when calling vdp_presentation_queue_block_until_surface_idle: An invalid handle value was provided.
[vdpau] Error when calling vdp_video_mixer_render: An invalid handle value was provided.
[vdpau] Error when calling vdp_presentation_queue_display: An invalid handle value was provided.
it just loops itself. No difference between HD and normal content.
When you add
vc=ffmpeg12vdpau,ffh264vdpau,ffwmv3vdpau,ffvc1vdpau,
to ~/.mplayer/config playback works but not at full speed, also new errors are displayed in terminal:
[vdpau] Error when calling vdp_presentation_queue_block_until_surface_idle: A catch-all error, used when no other error code applies.
[vdpau] Error when calling vdp_presentation_queue_block_until_surface_idle: An invalid handle value was provided.
Everything works fine once compiz is disabled.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Oct 8 07:44:56 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: mplayer-nogui 2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-1ubuntu8
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-12.40-generic
SourcePackage: mplayer
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-12-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
(gnome-settings-daemon:1737): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
(gnome-settings-daemon:1737): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
(polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1843): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
(nautilus:1832): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
(gnome-panel:1831): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -5 and height 24
Oh right, My GPU is
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Quadro NVS 140M (rev a1)
it has 128MB of ram (and uses up to 512MB of system ram or maybe 384MB..)