On 8/22/07, Dan Lund <situationalawareness@gmail.com> wrote:
Have you tried opening vlc via commandline and seeing the output when
you open the file in it?
That'd at least tell you if it's dumping information like "omg, wtf, is
this file corrupted!#?!#$?" or something equally likely to be put in by
an open source developer as an error message.
--Dan
I tried that two ways (see below) with the same results except now I can see the error messages in the terminal window. It is not clear to me what resources it means (RAM, Video RAM, etc) or what the various codes mean. BTW I have played ogg theora stuff before here with vlc, but this is an HD video so maybe that is making a difference. Thanks for your help!
larry@ldesk:~$ vlc -v ~/Desktop/LinuxMCE_0704_Demo_Video_2mbit.ogg
VLC media player
0.8.6 Janus
[00000001] main private warning: This doesn't look like a valid plugins cache
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: 85
Current serial number in output stream: 86
larry@ldesk:~$ vlc -v file://~/Desktop/LinuxMCE_0704_Demo_Video_2mbit.ogg
VLC media player
0.8.6 Janus
[00000001] main private warning: This doesn't look like a valid plugins cache
[00000284] main demuxer warning: no access_demux module matched "file"
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
larry@ldesk:~$ ll ~/Desktop/LinuxMCE_0704_Demo_Video_2mbit.ogg
-rw-r--r-- 1 larry larry 349887691 2007-08-20 09:33 /home/larry/Desktop/LinuxMCE_0704_Demo_Video_2mbit.ogg
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