Gary: Great! I'm glad to hear the problem is finally resolved. Thanks for stepping through this with us. Note that in the latest Nevada builds, we set the default video sink to "Autodetect" so this problem shouldn't be an issue going forward.
Brian > 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.
