[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 169289] New: Playbin should fallback on x11 when xvideo isn't available

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 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169289
 GStreamer | gst-plugins | Ver: 0.8.9

           Summary: Playbin should fallback on x11 when xvideo isn't
                    available
           Product: GStreamer
           Version: 0.8.9
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: Normal
         Component: gst-plugins
        AssignedTo: gstreamer-bugs at lists.sourceforge.net
        ReportedBy: lool+gnome at via.ecp.fr
         QAContact: gstreamer-bugs at lists.sourceforge.net
                CC: all-bugs at bugzilla.gnome.org


Hi,

this is inspired of Debian bug <http://bugs.debian.org/296848> where totem fails
to play anything with an error dialog.

Since it seems totem uses "playbin", I guess the underlying problem is that
playbin doesn't fallback on x11 imagesink (ximagesink) when xvideo isn't
available or is busy (such as zero or only one xv window possible).

I'll attach a trivial patch which attemps to create a ximagesink when
xvimagesink creation returns NULL in playbin.

I'm unsure on how this will resolve the issue since the GConf preferences might
point to using xvimagesink... but it's a step forward.  :-P

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