Autovideosink not working on Ubuntu

Stefan Kost ensonic at hora-obscura.de
Tue Jun 28 22:31:16 PDT 2011


On 06/28/11 09:01, William Metcalf wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I just installed gstreamer on Ubuntu and I am trying to do a simple
> test of the elements.  I am running the command gst-launch
> videotestsrc ! autovideosink, but I get the following errors:
>
> root at wmetcalf-desktop:/home/wmetcalf/Desktop/gst-plugins-good-0.10.30#
> gst-launch videotestsrc ! autovideosink
> Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
> Pipeline is PREROLLING ...
> WARNING: from element
> /GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstAutoVideoSink:autovideosink0: Resource not
> found.
> Additional debug info:
> gstautovideosink.c(314): gst_auto_video_sink_find_best ():
> /GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstAutoVideoSink:autovideosink0:
> Failed to find a usable video sink
>

You don't have a working videosink. autovideosink is a metaelement that
defers the work at an actual videosink it selects. Are you running this
under X (from a terminal app where the DISPLAY env-var is set)? What
does gst-inspect | grep sink shows?

Stefan
>
> Pipeline is PREROLLED ...
> Setting pipeline to PLAYING ...
> New clock: GstSystemClock
>
> Can somebody please give me some context on what is happening here and
> how to fix it?
>
> Thank you for your help,
> William
>
>
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