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

[Sven Arvidsson]

On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 00:04 +0100, Stefano Costa wrote:
> > If not, it's a problem with GStreamer, otherwise it's probably a
> > problem with your video driver, or Xorg.
> 
> Something like that, right. I had activated the "compositing manager"
> feature in Metacity, and deactivating that solved the problem.
> 
> Don't know if this still counts as a bug, and which package has got it.

Right, that's a Xorg/video driver problem.

Depending on what driver and acceleration method you use (usually xaa or
exa) accelerated video won't work in a composited environment.

See for example the last comment here,
http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showpost.php?p=25717&postcount=15

It's probably best to reassign this bug report to the video driver
you're using.

-- 
Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
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