Video playback using default Xv device shows pink screen

[Ajith Hussain]

Video playback shows only a pink screen on players that use the Xv output plugin.

I am not sure of the exact steps to reproduce. First time playback after login works fine. Subsequent playbacks are problematic. Sometimes, the issue surfaces only after several plays. However, the first playback is always successful. Once the pink screen issue occurs, then it happens every time till the X11 session is re-started (logout-login or reboot).

Using 'gstreamer-properties' I set the default video device to Xv (X Window System X11/XShm/Xv) and set the default device to 'NV05 Video Blitter'. Now Totem was able to playback without issues. However choosing 'NV17 Video Texture' caused the same problem. So I am guessing that the default Xv device is being set to NV17 which seems to have some problem. So if I change the default device to NV05 in gstreamer-properties, gstreamer based players work, but other players using Xv are still showing pink screen.

System Information:
Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10 AMD64
Latest Nvidia drivers installed from restricted-manager (100.14.19)