I can also confirm that the workaround works but I don't think this bug should be logged against totem. The bug is in i810, or somewhere else.
-- Totem receives BadAlloc when playing very large movies using Xv https://launchpad.net/bugs/4229 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
