Comment 86 for bug 41335

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.

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