[gst-devel] spider / autoplugger / caps

[Benjamin Otte]

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Julien MOUTTE wrote:

> 1 Xv port grabbed for each xvimagesink instance.
>
> so as 99% of video cards have a single Xv port you can only have one
> xvimagesink running at the same time as others can't grab the Xv port.
>
> Which is absolutely normal.
>
> One could try xvimagesink and if it fails to go to READY then use
> ximagesink.
>
Could you improve the error message? Failed xcontext doesn't seem so
informative, something like "Couldn't get an xcontext, probably all
XvPorts are locked." would be nice as this is a common problem. :)

Benjamin