Bug#252691: totem: new version in unstable crashes X upon playback of an MPEG

[Martin-Éric Racine]

On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Sebastien Bacher wrote:

> Le ven, 04/06/2004 à 21:27 +0300, Martin-Ãric Racine a écrit :
> 
> > The new version of Totem that appeared in unstable right after GNOME 2.=
6 crashes systematicly whenever starting 
> > playback of an MPEG movie that used to work on previous Totem versions.=
  That crash takes X down with it!
> 
> Does it happen with all MPEG movies and each time ? 
> Anybody else using ppc here to test that ?

Following discussion on IRC with Sebastien, I am pasting which video card I
have, as it might be an xfree bug:

ATI 3D Rage Pro 215GP (iMac CRT built-in)

The ATI bug is mentioned at http://bugs.debian.org/xserver-xfree86 #223089,
#236187, #236373, #243436.

I've then tried playing back the same test files on my i686, which worked
(Matrox MGA-G200 AGP), so it appears to narrow it down to an xfree problem with
the ATI driver or to a PPC-specific problem.

-- 
Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant
http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/