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[Michael E Granat <774008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Cracking cheese madbiologist!

Yes, I closed the playback window prematurely, as I did not have the
time to see the whole movie again just then. (It is one of the many
hundreds of ABC TV Australia shows I have stored thanks to Jeremy
Visser's wonderful Python iView application
https://jeremy.visser.name/2009/08/python-iview/ which legitimately
downloads shows available from the ABC iView site. It only works for
those of us living in the .au domain though.)

As the cat dmesg > whatever.txt cops a Permission denied response, even
after using my sudo command, I have attached the entire dmseg file
from /var/log/ as it is simply a plain text file anyway.

Hope that helps.

Cheers,

Michael

On Sat, 2011-10-08 at 16:07 +0000, madbiologist wrote:

> Wallace and Gromit!  We have to get this working! :)
> 
> It is interesting that the direct GStreamer playback worked.  I wonder
> if the problem is due to compositing, or to Totem, or both.  We can also
> see in the terminal output that Xvideo is being used - I'm not sure if
> this is the case when playing the file in Totem.  I presume the ERROR
> message appeared when you closed the window after 36.87 seconds of
> playback, before the end of the video.
> 
> I think I've just figured out why the dmesg grep for drm didn't work.
> Grep is a search tool and your result is likely to be expected if DRM
> (the kernel's Direct Rendering Manager) is not being used at all.  I've
> just tried grepping dmesg for "gromit" and there was no output.  So just
> attach the entire dmesg file:
> 
> cat dmesg > filename.txt
> 
> Don't forget to navigate to /var/log first.
> 
> Hopefully that will tell us what is going on graphics-wise in the kernel
> during boot.
> 


** Attachment added: "dmesg"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/774008/+attachment/2530932/+files/dmesg

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Title:
  ABC iView Flashplayer file blacking out on playback

Status in “gstreamer0.10” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Just downloaded the file spooks_11_09_04.flv (a 640 x 360, H.264 video
  codec / MPEG-4 AAC audio codec, 25 frames a second FLV file) using the
  Python iView file streaming application and, with no other
  applications running, tried to play it back with the new Media Player
  (Totem Movie Player 2.32.0) which installed with the 11.01 Natty
  Narwhal upgrade that I did yesterday evening. The previous version of
  this application had the Flashplayer plugin installed and working
  perfectly. Now, on this new version, I can only see flickering pieces
  of the video images when I press the F11 key repeatedly to go between
  full screen and window modes, as if a black overlay is blocking an
  underlying image from being viewed. I also just tried playing a
  regular (non Flashplayer) MP4 video and that encounters the same
  problem. Please advise a workaround. Thanks in anticipation.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.32-3ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Sat Apr 30 20:28:45 2011
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
   LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: gstreamer0.10
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-29 (1 days ago)

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