[gst-devel] Pipeline is prerolling and hanged

[Tim Müller]

On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 06:57 +0000, Datha wrote:

> New piece of problem. I executed following command ..
> ./gst-launch filesrc location=coffee.mpg ! mpegdemux ! mpeg2dec !
> Sdlvideosink
> Video simply not playing at all. I get following messages on screen
> 
> Setting pipeline to PAUSED
> Pipeline is PREROLLING
>   ...
> Same is for ximagesink. What is the problem.

Hard to say without the media file. Try this:

 gst-launch -v filesrc location=coffee.mpg ! mpegdemux ! mpeg2dec !
ffmpegcolorspace ! sdlvideosink

If that doesn't work either, try:

 gst-launch -v filesrc location=coffee.mpg ! decodebin !
ffmpegcolorspace ! sdlvideosink

Cheers
 -Tim