mplayer: X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)

[Anton Shterenlikht]

I've installed port multimedia/mplayer (mplayer-0.99.11_14)
on 9.0-current ia64.

Trying to play an mpeg video I get endless stream of 

X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
V:   7.6 190/190 17% 82%  0.0% 0 0 
X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)

Exiting... (End of file)

Please advise

many thanks

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Anton Shterenlikht
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