Eglglesink white screen ?

[Stefan Sauer]

On 01/17/2014 01:09 PM, Peter Maersk-Moller wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Im trying to build a script for many hardware platforms primarily
> running a late Ubuntu desktop version. For one of the tests I'm using
> vanilla Ubuntu desktop 13.10 amd64 which come with standard gstreamer
> 1.2.0. To complicate it a bit further, I'm running Ubuntu in a
> VirtualBox under OS X on a Mac. VirtualBox has OpenGL support.
>
> Now when I run a pipeline ending with autovideosink, a window with the
> right size appear and is named something with eglglesink however the
> window is all white which of course not really was the intention. Can
> anyone please tell me
>
>    1) Why does it select eglglesink?
>    2) Why is eglglesink all white?
>    3) Is there a good workaround?
>
> My goal is of course to have a pipeline that will work on many
> platforms whether they are virtual or not. Did a little search and
> though I have found references to eglglesink and white screen/window,
> not many suggestions seems proper.
>
> If I run the same pipeline ending in ximagesink, I get a nice video
> window. However if I end in xvimagesink I get the error message and no
> window:
>
>   No Xv port available
>
> So I guess Xv module is not supported on Virtualbox. BTW
> Ubuntu/VirtualBox is running X.org server 1.14 modules.
you can install a tool called xvinfo and run it to show if there are
xv-ports available. These can also be software emulated ones.

Stefan

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