Bug#711477: general: Videos are not visible in VMware Workstation

Holger Levsen holger at layer-acht.org
Mon Dec 9 14:23:24 UTC 2013


reassign 711477 gstreamer0.10
thanks

Hi,

while I'm reassigning this to gstreamer0.10, because it's definitly not a 
general bug in Debian, I'd probably maybe rather recommend to close this bug 
(in the Debian Bug tracker) as this issue seems to be a "hardware problem" 
cause by running as a VMware client....

On Freitag, 7. Juni 2013, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Package: general
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> I've installed Debian 7 as a guest OS in VMware 9.0.2, which is running in
> a Gentoo Linux AMD64 host. Trying to play videos in any software that uses
> GStreamer results in the audio being played normally, but the video is not
> visible. Instead, a dark gray area is displayed. This happens with Totem
> Movie Player, but also with my own software which also uses GStreamer
> (utilizing the playbin2 element).
> 
> This happens with all videos, regardless of video format. I should mention
> that this happens with both instances of Debian 7 I've installed: x86 and
> x86-64. Also, these are fresh installations and I didn't change any system
> settings or added third-party repositories, with the exception of having
> installed VMware Tools.
> 
> I am able to play video normally in my openSUSE, Fedora and Ubuntu guests.
> 
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 7.0
>   APT prefers stable-updates
>   APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash


cheers,
	Holger
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