Bug 9966

Summary:	Parole can't play videos on VirtualBox
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Robert Ottlovich <timpul>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	jani.valimaa
Version:	3
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
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Description Robert Ottlovich 2013-05-03 18:05:25 CEST

Description of problem:
Parole cannot open any files because of missing gstreamer.
Gtreamer backend error, videosink doesn't work.
Totem (Videos) can open this video.

http://mypublics.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/parole-gstreamer.jpg

Sorry no available error log because of removing Mageia 3 RC from VBox.





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Comment 1 Jani Välimaa 2013-05-04 13:54:57 CEST

Can't reproduce this.

I'm sorry to say this, but if you (or anyone else) can't provide any further infomation about this issue, I'm going to close this as WORKSFORME.

CC: (none) => jani.valimaa

Comment 2 Jani Välimaa 2013-05-04 16:18:42 CEST

Tried previously only on a real HW and now tried also with VirtualBox.

Seems VirtualBox's video driver doesn't support XVideo (xv) and parole tries to use xv output by default (unless user have disabled it). This causes your issue and it's only reproducible with video drivers not suppporting XVideo. Cmd 'xvinfo' from pkg xvinfo tells if XVideo is supported.

Users can disable XVideo support in parole with cmd 'parole --xv false' and enable it again with 'parole --xv --true'. Those cmd's needs to be used only once. After disabling XVideo, videos should work.

This isn't really a bug in parole or pkg'ing so I'm closing this as WORKSFORME.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => WORKSFORME
Summary: Parole cannot open any files => Parole can't play videos on VirtualBox