video player blank window with SiS chipset

[John Harvey]

This is a totem-gstreamer issue.  Remove it and install totem-xine and
it works properly, this resolved the issue for me

Also the mplayer packages can be downloaded from the marrilat sources -
add 

deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main

to your sources.list and you can download it.  This is not in universe i
believe due to the non free and or legally grey codecs it uses but it
works fine for me with everything i have tried.

On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 11:03 +1000, Nick Kamenyitzky wrote:
> just install totem-xine (and remove totem-gstreamer)
> that way it all works perfectly
> 
> 
> 
> Andy wrote:
> 
> > Fabio wrote:
> >
> >> |> | However, there's no video output from Totem - whether from a 
> >> video file
> >> |> | (only sound plays) or an audio file (no "gorm" visualization). 
> >> All I
> >> |> get
> >> |> | is a black window.
> >> |>
> >> |> Do other players show the same file on your machine? Can you try with
> >> |> xine (you might need to install it from universe)
> >> |
> >> |
> >> | I can find libxine1 in universe, but not xine-ui.
> >>
> >> that's strange..
> >> dpkg -p xine-ui
> >> [SNIP]
> >> Filename: pool/universe/x/xine-ui/xine-ui_0.99.1-1_i386.deb
> >
> >
> > Sorry - operator incompetence :( - it is there of course.
> >
> > Just loaded it and it works fine. Videos play no problem (except ones 
> > which need an unsupported codec of course - I haven't loaded any 
> > additional codecs).
> >
> >> I would prefer to know if it is a player problem on a xserver problem.
> >>
> >> I guess that would be a perfect start ;)
> >
> >
> > Well - I guess it's a player problem! With some files Totem plays the 
> > sound but no video, others it hangs altogether. I can give you details 
> > of the files (or send them to you) if that helps.
> >
> > If you think this is better transferred to bugzilla, I'll do so - 
> > otherwise I'm happy to pursue it on the list. Since Xine works I can 
> > play media so it's not a problem for me but I guess you'd like to 
> > track the bug down? I'm impressed with Ubuntu so far and if I can be 
> > of help in tracking down bugs I'll do what I can.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Andy
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
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John Harvey
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