gstreamer-plugins upgrade: totem failure on big videos

[barbara]

> On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:29:25 -0500, barbara > wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > after upgrading all my gstreamer* ports yesterday, totem fails on  
> > playing big videos (in terms of width x height).
> > For example I can play a 512x384 video, but trying with a 720x576 video  
> > this message is displayed in a popup:
> >
> >     An error occurred
> >     Failed to create output image buffer of 720x576 pixels
> >
> > and this message is printed on the console:
> > ** Message: Error: Failed to create output image buffer of 720x576 pixels
> > xvimagesink.c(621): gst_xvimagesink_xvimage_new ():  
> > /GstPlayBin:play/GstBin:vbin/GstGConfVideoSink:video-sink/GstBin:bin0/GstAutoVideoSink:autovideosink0/GstXvImageSink:autovideosink0-actual-sink-xvimage:
> > could not get shared memory of 622080 bytes
> 
> I can't reproduce it. Have  you follow in  
> multimedia/totem/files/pkg-messages.in yet?
> 
> Cheers,
> Mezz
> 
> 

Thanks! Setting those sysctl fixed the problem.
So now I wonder why it was working before :)
Anyway, if I'm not wrong, the message is not displayed and, as it refers to xine FAQ, it could lead into thinking that it's about totem-xine.

Kind regards
Barbara