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blank image playing videos (totem)
Posted: 30. May 2015, 17:17
by maroman
SalixOS. mate ed. I wonder how to fix video player (totem). I have all codecs installed and there is voice, but no image. there is no issue with different video player - MPlayer works fine with exactly the same files (both mp4 and flv).
Vlc also works fine.
cheers,
Re: blank image playing videos (totem)
Posted: 30. May 2015, 19:21
by gapan
What video card do you have? It seems that for some weird reason the default video output doesn't work right with it.
Install the gnome-media package:
and then run gstreamer-properties:
In the video tab, select different video outputs until you find one that works.
Re: blank image playing videos (totem)
Posted: 31. May 2015, 05:11
by maroman
@gapan, thanks a lot for your suggestions. please look at results.
my graphics card
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inxi -G
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x]
Display Server: X.Org 1.14.3 drivers: nouveau (unloaded: nv,vesa)
Resolution: 1920x1080@60.0hz
GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI nv18 x86/MMX/SSE2 GLX Version: 1.2 Mesa 9.1.7
gnome-media (not) installed (?). there are errors
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checking gnome-doc-utils >= 0.3.2... no
configure: error: gnome-doc-utils >= 0.3.2 not found
fakeroot -- sh gnome-media.SlackBuild Failed
and finally
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bash: gstreamer-properties: command not found
cheers,
Re: blank image playing videos (totem)
Posted: 31. May 2015, 07:27
by maximus
I haven't confirmed this to work, but you can try:
and then try again:
The reason you got:
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bash: gstreamer-properties: command not found
is because
gstreamer-properties is part of the gnome-media package, which failed to install.
Re: blank image playing videos (totem)
Posted: 31. May 2015, 08:05
by gapan
Probably try this first:
and then try to install gnome-media again.
Re: blank image playing videos (totem)
Posted: 31. May 2015, 13:30
by maroman
all installed, but every time I start gstreamer-properties I have
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gstreamer-properties
gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'artsdsink'
gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'pulsesink'
gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'sunaudiosink'
gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'glimagesink'
gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'v4lmjpegsrc'
gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'qcamsrc'
gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'v4lsrc'
gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'esdmon'
gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'sunaudiosrc'
gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'pulsesrc'
I have tried all output settings and failed. interesting issue
. is it graphic card specific? I will install salix on different computer with different graphics to compare. (but MPlayer works fine)
cheers,
Re: blank image playing videos (totem)
Posted: 31. May 2015, 18:20
by gapan
Those messages are not important.
And I see now that gstreamer-properties changes the output only for gstreamer 0.10 applications. Totem is a gstreamer 1.0 application so it won't work. Sadly, I don't know of a way to change the video output for gstreamer 1.0.
And yes, this is related to your video card. The problem might disappear if you use different drivers. You could try installing the proprietary driver. Instructions in the wiki.
Or you could try blacklisting nouveau, not sure if nv works on that card, although I think it should. Removing the xf86-video-nouveau package and restarting the system should be equivalent.
But, my advice is, since you found a media player that works ok for you, stick with it.
Re: blank image playing videos (totem)
Posted: 1. Jun 2015, 04:39
by maroman
gapan wrote:But, my advice is, since you found a media player that works ok for you, stick with it.
exactly. I'm using MPlayer instead (but by the way it's pity there is no live version to test distro).
thanks for your support.
cheers,
Re: blank image playing videos (totem)
Posted: 2. Jun 2015, 15:19
by san3813
Do you not like VLC? plays everything that is thrown at it
Re: blank image playing videos (totem)
Posted: 3. Jun 2015, 14:33
by maroman
san3813 wrote:Do you not like VLC? plays everything that is thrown at it
vlc is qt based. using mate I think it's better to instal gtk based apps. am I wrong?
cheers