Same problem on xenial in an Acer Aspire One 255 (AOD255E), also in VLC. gnome-mplayer shows the video but at a very slow frame rate, and in cases where it has to scale the image up to make it fill the screen, the image quality is worse than on an Acer Aspire One 360 with VLC (same resolution, full screen, no frame skips). I guess that gnome-mplayer used software rendering, most probably because hardware video acceleration was unavailable. The latter would explain why other media players failed.
Also a Thinkpad on precise started to have the all-black video problem some time in spring or summer of 2016; I had thought this was just an end-of-support thing precise is quite old now. On the Thinkpad, VLC and gnome-mplayer also show the video as just black. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gstreamer0.10 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/661735 Title: Black screen on video playback Status in gstreamer0.10 package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: On a Lucid clean install, I cannot play any kind of video using Totem. I just get the audio and a black screen and after that I get the same black screen on any video player I try (mplayer, vlc, xine, etc.). If I don't open totem first, I can see the videos on the other players. I tried disabling compiz, but get the same behavior. I also tried gst-launch playbin uri=file:///path/to/vid and that works Ok. Please, tell me if you need any extra information. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.28-1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-25.44-generic 2.6.32.21+drm33.7 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-25-generic i686 NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx Architecture: i386 Date: Sat Oct 16 10:38:09 2010 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429) ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=es_AR.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gstreamer0.10 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gstreamer0.10/+bug/661735/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
