Comment 87 for bug 41335

Hello

solved the problem:

selected default output plug-in x window system (no xv) in Gstreamer and now it works !!
thank you for your help!

best
mayank

> Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:21:36 +0000
> From: <email address hidden>
> To: <email address hidden>
> Subject: Re: [Bug 41335] Re: DVD playing is not working correctly with totem-gstreamer
>
> mayank <email address hidden> writes:
>
> > funny thing is, that even the VLC play does not show display. it works,
> > and gives audio- but no picture!!
> >
> > GS streamer simply crashes.
> >
> > so I found a way out- I start the VLC player- and put it in pause mode.
>
> probable explanation: This causes vlc to allocate an xv port, which is
> then unavailable to GS
>
> > then start the GS streamer, and the GS streamer works !! with picture,
> > and audio both with most formats (mp4, flv etc)
>
> GS fails then to open an xv port, and falls back to X11 video.
>
> > therefore it means that the VLC player is loading something, which then
> > is utilized by the GStreamer player?
>
> no, I rather assumes it blocks access to "something". you can try if
> starting vlc with 'vlc -V x11' to check if I'm right.
>
> This should also be configurable in totem somewhere, but I don't know
> how the video output module can be selected.
>
> If I am right, this is most certainly a problem in your videodriver.
>
> --
> Gruesse/greetings,
> Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4
>
> --
> DVD playing is not working correctly with totem-gstreamer
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/41335
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