[gst-devel] can't show video

[Thomas Vander Stichele]

videotestsrc had some memory corruption bugs and other problems in
0.6.1, which should be fixed now.  We'll do a new release soon.



On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 07:41, Cameron McCormack wrote:
> Hi again.
> 
> So I'm trying to do some simple testing, but I can't get gst-launch to
> play video (audio works fine).  gst-player can open a .mpg file and
> play it ok though.
> 
> I try using videotestsrc, and this is what happens:
> 
>   blue:~ $ gst-launch videotestsrc ! xvideosink
>   (process:6555): GStreamer-WARNING **: unknown property type 134838132 at 0x809778c
>   [ ... lots of these warnings about unknown property types, with
>         different numbers ...]
>   GStreamer-INFO: 0 live buffer(s)
>   GStreamer-INFO: 0 live bufferpool(s)
>   GStreamer-INFO: 0 live event(s)
>   videotestsrc: caps FOURCC 0x32595559, forced FOURCC 0x00000000
>   videotestsrc: using FOURCC 0x32595559
>   videotestsrc: caps FOURCC 0x32595559, forced FOURCC 0x00000000
>   videotestsrc: using FOURCC 0x32595559
>   ERROR: /pipeline0/xvideosink0: image creation failed
>   ERROR: /pipeline0/xvideosink0: no image to draw (are you feeding me video?)
>   execution ended after 1 iterations (sum 42180000 ns, average 42180000 ns, min 42
>   GStreamer-INFO: 0 live buffer(s)
>   GStreamer-INFO: 1 live bufferpool(s)
>   GStreamer-INFO: 0 live event(s)
> 
> The window pops up briefly then disappears without showing any video in
> it.  What's going wrong?  I have apt-get installed gstreamer-{misc,x}.
> It seems to be version 0.6.1 of gstreamer.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Cameron

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