[Spice-devel] spice-gtk - no element appsrc

[Victor Toso]

Hi,

On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 07:04:48PM +0200, David Craven wrote:
> Hi toso,
>
> There was indeed a problem with loading the gst-plugins. I set the
> GST_PLUGIN_SYSTEM_PATH correctly and I got rid of the warning.
> gst-inspect-1.0 was very useful for debugging this, thank you.
>
> I still can't get guest display mode setting to work. When looking at
> xrandr output there seems to be a plus beside the ideal resolution
> that changes when I resize the window. Do you have any further advice
> on debugging this issue?

Can you provide a description of the problem you are facing?

>
> I have a lot of qxl_kms_surface_create: Bad bpp: 1 (1) in my
> Xorg.0.log. Maybe that's related? Is the qxl driver needed for this to
> work?

Yes, qxl is desirable, on fedora 24 the package is xorg-x11-drv-qxl

I'm guessing your problem is the display not resizing?
- Which guest os you are connecting to?

You said:
> Since I've packaged the relevant packages myself (qemu, spice,
> spice-gtk, virt-viewer, usbredir, spice-vdagent)

It would be great to understand what you are trying to do as the bug
could be something not explained.

Cheers,
  toso

>
> Cheers,
> David
> 
> On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 12:57 PM, Victor Toso <lists at victortoso.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 12:43:49PM +0200, David Craven wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I'm getting these warnings when running remote-viewer:
> >>
> >> ```
> >> ** (remote-viewer:13315): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to
> >> accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-mv7zMXN5YD:
> >> Connection refused
> >
> > This one is strange to me.
> >
> >> (remote-viewer:13315): Spice-WARNING **:
> >> channel-display-gst.c:303:create_pipeline: GStreamer error: no element
> >> "appsrc"
> >
> > Should be part of gst-plugins-base package. You can verify if you have
> > it by running: `gst-inspect-1.0 appsrc`
> >
> >> (remote-viewer:13315): Gtk-WARNING **: Allocating size to SpiceDisplay
> >> 0xb26320 without calling gtk_widget_get_preferred_width/height(). How
> >> does the code know the size to allocate?
> >> ```
> >
> > I see this too.
> >
> >>
> >> I'm mainly concerned with the second one since I think this is what's
> >> preventing spice-vdagent from getting window resize events. (Clipboard
> >> works). Since I've packaged the relevant packages myself (qemu, spice,
> >> spice-gtk, virt-viewer, usbredir, spice-vdagent) - All packages are
> >> the latest releases, I'm assuming it's a packaging problem (a missing
> >> dependency or something). I looked at the arch linux PKGBUILD for
> >> reference and I noticed that spice-gtk didn't have gstreamer or
> >> gst-base-plugins listed as a dependency. Are these somehow optional?
> >
> > They are optional from --enable-gstvideo. Lack of plugins generate a
> > warning after the autogen.sh but it still let you build the code.
> >
> > AFAIK, in case the gstreamer pipeline does not work, it should fallback
> > to default mjpeg decoder.
> >
> >>
> >> Can you please help me figure out how to get this working?
> >
> > I would recommend taking a look into fedora 24 package [0] instead, to
> > check what is used there.
> >
> > [0] http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/spice-gtk.git/tree/spice-gtk.spec
> >
> > Cheers,
> >   toso
> >
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >> David
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