can't play avi file

[Darlene Wallach]

Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> On 11/23/06, Darlene Wallach <freepalestin at dslextreme.com> wrote:
> 
>> Matthew Miller wrote:
>> > On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 06:10:53PM -0800, Darlene Wallach wrote:
>> >
>> >>Does anyone have any suggestions other than upgrading to FC 6?
>> >
>> >
>> > 1. Upgrade to at least FC5. FC3 is unsupported, and it's ancient, in
>> >    "internet years". Stuff will just work better. And while you're 
>> at it,
>> >    at least _consider_ upgrading to FC6. That's part of the deal 
>> with Fedora
>> >    -- you gotta upgrade at least yearly.
>>
>> I know. I prefer to install - and format the partitions. I have a
>> lot to backup before I install so I don't install as often as I
>> should as you can see.
>>
>> > 2. Install mplayer from livna.
>> >
>>
>> I have mplayer installed. mplayer won't play the avi file either.
> 
> 
> How did you determine that this is an avi and not something else with
> an avi extension?  Where did you get this file?
> 
> 

Lonni,

I downloaded the file from a website.

$ file 2005-SS-FP.V01.2005-04-12.HDV_low.avi
2005-SS-FP.V01.2005-04-12.HDV_low.avi: RIFF (little-endian) data, AVI, 
1280 x 720, 25.00 fps, video: XviD, audio: MPEG-1 Layer 3 (mono, 48000 Hz)

Here is the output from running mplayer on the file:
[begin output from mplayer]
$ mplayer 2005-SS-FP.V01.2005-04-12.HDV_low.avi
MPlayer 1.0rc1-3.4.4 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville (Family: 6, 
Model: 8, Stepping: 3)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
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 2005-SS-FP.V01.2005-04-12.HDV_low.avi.
AVI file format detected.
VIDEO:  [XVID]  1280x720  24bpp  25.000 fps  800.3 kbps (97.7 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
  Software: MEncoder 1.0pre7-3.3.5
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffodivx] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 96.0 kbit/6.25% (ratio: 12000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
==========================================================================
AO: [oss] 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!
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.
Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x6a)!
[end output from mplayer]

Darlene