> > Could not initialize Xv output > > > > I don't know what that means. > > GStreamer supports two video sinks. If you run > gstreamer-properties > and click on the "Video" tab, you will notice that > the "Default > Output" can be either "X Window System (No Xv)" or "X > Window > System (X11/Xshm/Xv)". If your Xserver does not > support the Xv > extension, but you have the value set to "X Window > System > (X11/Xshm/Xv)", then you will see errors like this. > Is that the > ase with you? You might try setting the value to > "Autodetect" > or to "X Window System (No Xv)" and see if that helps > make the > error go away. However, I doubt that is the problem > with playing > CD's, but might be worth a check.
You got it! Before I saw this message, I thought it might refer to that other `xv'. So, I disabled the visualization plugin and finally got audio. Then I ran gstreamer-properties (a new one on me) and saw that it showed X11/Xshm/Xv for video. The test button gave me an error. When I tried either Autodetect or No Xv, the test button worked. I left it at No Xv and re-enabled the plugin in rhythmbox. With that, the audio still worked correctly, and so did visualization. So, that was the problem. This particular computer has the ATI chipset. I understand that ATI video is not well supported under Solaris. I did a fresh install of snv_117 to see if it was improved. Gstreamer's video setting was incorrect by default. I have another similar computer that has the Nvidia chipset. Rhythmbox doesn't have that problem on this one. It's also running snv_117. The video setting is also X11/Xshm/Xv. It must support the Xv extension. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
