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Hey there, I'm a newbie Linux user running Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper) and VLC 0.8.4 on an IBM Thinkpad 390E. I'm not completely clear on all my hardware specs, as it was slapped together by someone else and I still have yet to learn how to use terminals for anything beyond basic commands.

Anyway, my problem is whenever I try to run an .avi in VLC (in this particular case the MIME type was x-msvideo), VLC almost immediately crashes. I checked the forums for help already and found a few threads that said to make sure ALSA was picking up the right sound card, and I fixed that, but still no go. Any help?

ETA: It's doing the exact same thing with Mplayer. So I guess it's a general computer problem and not a VLC-specific one?

run vlc from command line with -vvv switch

Got a huge return and the video still didn't work. Last bit of the return read this:

[00000319] mpgatofixed32 audio output debug: libmad error: Huffman data overrun
[00000319] main audio output debug: audio output is starving (54628), playing si lence
X Error of failed request: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 140 (XVideo)
Minor opcode of failed request: 19 ()
Serial number of failed request: 80
Current serial number in output stream: 81

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I had a similar issue once, and changing the video output module had fixed it.

I had a similar issue once, and changing the video output module had fixed it.

What did you change it to?

I don't remember actually, X11 probably. Just try all of them. One more thing: I think the problem had started when I tried the ATI's proprietary drivers, changing back to xorg's might have solved it either.

In my case, it would segfault with other players as well.