Totem and GStreamer properties
Recently I was trying to watch a DVD on my laptop. I'm running compiz-fusion with my ati-drivers, and had a problem with the video showing up. I kept getting a blank screen with a few frames showing up once in a while. I fixed this issue in vlc by setting my video output to x11. I use Gnome for my desktop, and by default, it uses totem as its media player. I tried everything I could think of to find a way to change the backend settings for totem which uses gstreamer.
Finally, after some google searching, I found the solution. gstreamer comes with a configuration tool to change the audio and video settings. It's called gstreamer-properties who would have thought? After running this I changed the video settings to use X11 for gstreamer as well, opened up totem and the DVD played fine! Just thought I'd share this little tidbit.
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August 29th, 2008 - 08:57
Nice! That helped very much. Thank you!
April 17th, 2010 - 12:12
Thanks for this, fixed Totem / gstreamer video not showing up on Lucid beta2.