Gnome-mplayer shows only gray square in fullscreen

[Taylor "Ripps" LeMasurier-Wren]

Binary package hint: gnome-mplayer

When I have gnome-mplayer set to use Xv output, it loses the video in place of a gray square often. It seems to happen most when it's fullscreen. It will fullscreen properly for a moment, but will turn into a big gray square when the controls shift away. This can be bypassed by removing the controls altogether, but it still occurs again any popup, such as a notification, happens.
This behavior is annoying and needs to be fixed.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Oct 5 11:03:09 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: gnome-mplayer 0.9.8-1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.38-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-mplayer
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

Know issue, according to upstream (http://groups.google.com/group/gnome-mplayer/browse_thread/thread/62d2e9fd9d8e90ff#) this is due to libgtk, so, reassigning accordingly.

[Kevin DeKorte (kdekorte-gmail)]

Just as an FYI, this problem does not seem to happen on Fedora Rawhide with gtk2 2.18.1. I'm unsure what version is being used in Karmic.

[Kevin DeKorte (kdekorte-gmail)]

You can also open gconf-editor and change /apps/gnome-mplayer/preferences/disable_animation to true and see if that fixes it. The checkbox in 0.9.8 doesn't work due to a coding error that was fixed on Oct 5, 2009.

[Taylor "Ripps" LeMasurier-Wren (ripps818)]

Disabling animation still doesn't fix the problem, the video still turns grey when the controls disapear in fullscreen.

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

We have just got 2.18.1, so, does that change anything?

[Taylor "Ripps" LeMasurier-Wren (ripps818)]

I already had 2.18.1 installed when I filed this bug, so no, it didn't fix it.

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

@kevin, do you maintain your position that this is a gtk+ problem, or should I reopen the gnome-mplayer task? I know its difficult for you since you cannpot reproduce, but if you need any info just ask.

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

bug #447874 look very similar to this (same circumstances but flickering).

[Kevin DeKorte (kdekorte-gmail)]

Does setting "export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1" in the terminal affect this in anyway?

found this in this document: http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/2.18/gtk-migrating-ClientSideWindows.html

Also 447874 is a dup of this issue.

I maintain that it may be a gtk issue, at least needs to be looked at. Because the code that does the drawing and positioning should work the same for GTK 2.16 and 2.18. I have a 2.16 machine available and I will try and test on it in a couple of days.

[Taylor "Ripps" LeMasurier-Wren (ripps818)]

"export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1" didn't fix the problem.

[Kevin DeKorte (kdekorte-gmail)]

Opened https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=598050

[Kevin DeKorte (kdekorte-gmail)]

More convinced it is a gtk 2.18 issue. I ran SVN of gnome-mplayer on my gtk 2.14 machine and did not have the gray blocks when I resized the window using either x11 or gl output over ssh -X.

[Kevin DeKorte (kdekorte-gmail)]

I also was able to test on my 2.16 machine and did not see the same issue as on the 2.18 machine. So appears to be a regression in GTK

[Kevin DeKorte (kdekorte-gmail)]

BTW, I was incorrect stating that I did not see the problem on my Fedora machine. The problem does occur there with gtk 2.18.2 as well.

[Taylor "Ripps" LeMasurier-Wren (ripps818)]

It seems there have been patches submitted upstream for both gnome-mplayer and gtk, when will they reach Ubuntu?

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

Nothing will be done for gnome-mplayer in karmic unless gtk gets patched/backported.

[Taylor "Ripps" LeMasurier-Wren (ripps818)]

This was already fixed in Lucid.