MoviePlayer does not display unless at full screen

[candtalan]

Binary package hint: totem

lucid 10.04 beta with updates daily downloads.
Problem:
If a list of videos is seen in nautilus and attempted to view by opening movieplayer from right click in the nautilus list, then the movieplayer window shows black (but audio is ok). If now a cursor right click is used in the black area, then fleeting video picture is seen.
If now the viewing is set to full screen, then a full good picture is seen ok. If now you leave full screen then picture area again shows only black.

Alternative (works no problem):
If movieplayer is first opened simply as an application, with no target video file, and THEN, the movieplayer menu is used:
Movie>Open>[target file]
then under this starting condition, the movieplayer video displays normally.

This seems to occur with all the file types I can try, that is, it does not seem to be dependent on file types, rather though, on the method of starting the video in movieplayer.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: totem 2.30.0git20100413-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Apr 18 16:07:26 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta i386 (20100318)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: totem

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

which video driver do you have? do you get the same with a visualization and an audio file? does mplayer or vlc behave the same way? Thanks.

[candtalan (aeclist)]

video: I am not sure about the driver, however lspci shows:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
I will certainly try to get more information if someone can say which actions to use, thanks

Audio file: in movieplayer works normally, plays ok.
audio file play visualisation - is normal and ok

VLC works normally

mplayer:
installed gnome-mplayer:
plays and displays normally no problems

thanks

[Peter (peterdonaldson)]

Same problem as in #1 using 10.04 full release.

VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 SE] (rev 01)
No desktop effects
Have added "options radeon modeset=0" to created file /etc/modprobe.d/radeon-kms.conf
(Seems to stop mouse cursor corruption)

Audio file: in movieplayer works normally, plays ok.
audio file play visualisation - is normal and ok

[Peter (peterdonaldson)]

Continuing from #5

Commenting out "options radeon modeset=0" and having the visual/desktop effects on NORMAL enables the player to function normally.

[mprince (mprince-cavtel)]

Same problem here as #1-- also using 10.04 full release.

VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. KM400/KN400/P4M800 [S3 UniChrome] (rev 01)
No desktop effects

If I double click on a video file, the playback is black with an occasional flash of an image. The audio plays fine. If I move the window using the mouse, I can see the video, but then it returns to black when I release.

For whatever reason, the playback works fine if I launch Totem using the Applications menu and then drag-n-drop a video file to it. There is a small ammount of flicker when the video starts, but otherwise plays back fine.

***This helps as a workaround***
Press Alt+F2 and run gstreamer-properties-- on the video tab, change the default output plugin to "X Window System (No Xv)."

[Irvine (irvine)]

Same problem here. On 64bit AMD using [SiS] M760GX video (Acer 5003).

Workaround works perfectly, thanks! It seems Minitube is still affected though.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

candtalan, this bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? If so, could you please test for this with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ .

If it remains an issue, could you please run the following command in the development release from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal), as it will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report:

apport-collect -p xserver-xorg-video-ati REPLACE-WITH-BUG-NUMBER

Please note, given that the information from the prior release is already available, doing this on a release prior to the development one would not be helpful.

Thank you for your understanding.

Helpful bug reporting tips:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]