n00b wants to play movie to quicktime over net

Randy Bush randy at psg.com
Sat Sep 21 04:13:00 PDT 2013


> $ gst-launch-0.10 playbin uri=file:///home/randy/test.mov
> Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
> Pipeline is PREROLLING ...
> Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
> Cannot connect to server socket
> jack server is not running or cannot be started
> xcb_connection_has_error() returned true
> AL lib: pulseaudio.c:612: Context did not connect: Access denied
> AL lib: alsa.c:512: Could not open playback device 'default': No such file or directory
> AL lib: oss.c:169: Could not open /dev/dsp: No such file or directory
> ERROR: from element /GstXvImageSink:videosink-actual-sink-xvimage: Could not initialise Xv output
> Additional debug info:
> xvimagesink.c(1804): gst_xvimagesink_xcontext_get (): /GstXvImageSink:videosink-actual-sink-xvimage:
> Could not open display
> ERROR: pipeline doesn't want to preroll.
> Setting pipeline to NULL ...
> Freeing pipeline ...
> 
> my guess is this is an output issue, though being a n00b, i am far from
> sure.  but this is a remote ubuntu server in a rack.
> 
> i have sshed in -X, so it should be able to tunnel back to my X
> server.

i was insufficiently patient.  it has opened an x session and is playing
at glacial speed.  the rtt between streamer and x server is 140-150ms,
which is not helping.

> otoh, what i really want is to play it over the net to a quicktime
> client via a uri.

would you mind giving me the pipe do play to a specified uri?

thanks a million!

randy


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