video player problem

[bunty82]

hi i installed slackware 12
my problem is when i play a video
it play slowly like it hangs also it had shades of green
just as in PAL mode
and in the end x windows shuts down
and end me in terminal mode
my system is intel 845 gl
128mb ram
and 40 gb hdd

[Freston]

Some questions:
What video player?
What Window Manager?
What kind of video format? (I doubt if you have a DVD player in that machine, although it would be cool if you had )
Did you get the video codexes, and where?

Also, does in happen when you run <aaxine name_of_video>?
(aaxine is an ASCII Art video player )

[bunty82]

What video player?

its gxine and aaxine player

What Window Manager?

its KDE 3.4
for slackware 12

What kind of video format

its mpg
now please tell me

[Freston]

I understood from your other thread that you're quitting Slackware.
'cuz getting this to work requires some trouble shooting. Your RAM is very low for KDE, which is the heaviest desktop environment available. That doesn't explain why you're set back to textual mode though.

You could try your luck with the VLC player, but I doubt if that fixes anything. You can also try a different desktop environment. Slackware ships with several.

I'm not really sure where the problem could lie, could be anything really. Video driver, codexes, memory management (I have no idea what happens when you run out of swap, but this is similar to how I envision it), you can try
<cat ~/.xsession-errors | tail> after this happens. If you want to put in the effort that is.