kino, xine, mplayer, totem: X11 error: BadAlloc

[Wybo Dekker]

I wrote:
> Hi, I want to edit some video, tried kino, but it says
> 
> The program 'kino' received an X Window System error.
> This probably reflects a bug in the program.
> The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'.

> xine gave a similar error message:
> 
> X Error of failed request:  BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)

I found out that avidemux is a much nicer tool than kino; I could edit a
  movie with it. However, my favourite  movie-player: mplayer plays the
sound, but shows only a black image and generates many errors:

X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)

totem gives the same error message.

avidemux plays the movie, albeit not smoothly, but reports to be unable
to initialize the sound device.

Maybe this is related to my earlier question about googleearth?
Would appreciate suggestions.

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Wybo