[Pkg-telepathy-maintainers] Bug#510221: totem-gstreamer: gstreamer fails to play any video file. totem crashes even with audio files.

[Sven Arvidsson]

On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 23:35 +0100, Stefano Costa wrote:
> Ok, that makes a difference and I can see video.
> 
> Now, just because this was working until a few days ago and I didn't
> touch the "autodetect" option until you asked me to do so, I'd say
> there's probably either a regression in some related package or a
> missing dependency for a more recent version of something.
> 
> Apart from that, ximagesink looks a bit less nice than xvimagesink. For
> example:
> 
>         steko at gibreel:~/Desktop$ gst-launch filesrc
>         location=mov004.mpeg2 ! decodebin2 ! ffmpegcolorspace !
>         deinterlace2 ! ximagesink
>         
>         (gst-launch-0.10:1987): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load
>         plugin '/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstice.so':
>         libjinglep2pbase-0.3.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No
>         such file or directory
>         AVVERTIMENTO: pipeline errata: impossibile collegare
>         deinterlace20 a ximagesink0.

It's probably easiest to just try another video player, like MPlayer or
Xine, and see if any of those have trouble with accelerated video (for
mplayer use "mplayer -vo xv file.mpeg").

If not, it's a problem with GStreamer, otherwise it's probably a problem
with your video driver, or Xorg.

-- 
Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
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