GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 562826
Banshee Video will not display.
Last modified: 2020-03-17 08:17:14 UTC
Please describe the problem: When attempting to playback video, Banshee will play the video's audio but will only display video for a fracton of a second then playback screen goes blank. Steps to reproduce: 1. open banshee media player 2. goto video library 3. select a video and press play or double-click the video Actual results: Banshee playes the file but only sound is present, video will not display. Expected results: Banshee should display video along with audio. Does this happen every time? Yes Other information: A small but incompleate work around is present. run gstreamer-properties and select video tab and in default video output select X windows (no Xv). This allows video to play but it is very cpu intensive and causes video playback to become choppy even on a 1.8 Ghz cpu, 1 GB of ram and an ATI video card with 32 MB of memory. Banshee needs to beable to play video using the default video output driver.
Can you play video in totem? Are you using any kinda of compositor? And does this still occur in banshee 1.4.2?
Yes it plays in all other players, no I am not using any compositor, yes it still occurs in 1.4.2 also video will show if i open the banshee menus (media, edit, etc.) or if i open a terminal and it is in focus video will also show.
I think I've seen this bug. While it's blank, if you move the window around does it trigger it to come back?
(In reply to comment #3) > I think I've seen this bug. While it's blank, if you move the window around > does it trigger it to come back? >
Sorry about the blank post, I havn't tried yet, I will as soon as I can.
Yes, If i play a video and then move the window around the video comes up and stays untill i switch to something other than now playing screen (eg: music library, video lib, last.fm, etc.)
Created attachment 131139 [details] output of lspci
I think I encountered a similar behaviour as described in the first post: Only audio being played in Banshee whereas VLC and Totem didn't have this problem. However, currently Banshee works well after applying a workaround for another bug concerning package xserver-xorg-video-intel in Ubuntu 8.04. I had random system freezes when starting to play video files. System: Ubuntu 8.04 Intel 945 graphics Banshee version: 1.4.3 from Banshee Team PPA (https://edge.launchpad.net/~banshee-team/+archive/ppa) video card: Intel 945 Workaround: replace versions of xserver-xorg-video-intel (and dependency libdrm2) with version from Debian Lenny bugs related to my workaround: - https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/233896 - https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/229128
I'm still encountering this exact same problem in Banshee 1.5.0, running Ubuntu Jaunty with Intel 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics (ancient I know). Videos play fine in Totem and other players, and the workaround produces extremely choppy video.
This problem is still occurring for me in Banshee 1.6 Beta 2 (1.5.1) on my HP nx6125 laptop running Ubuntu Karmic. It has a ATI Technologies Inc Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE) graphics card
It is still happening to me, with all video files. Banshee 1.6 Beta 2 (1.5.1) kubuntu 9.10 (karmic) pentuim - 4 desktop
Created attachment 169524 [details] log file during the bug
I can confirm the bug on THinkpad x40, Ubuntu 10.04, banshee 1.7.5 and 1.7.4
As reported in https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=609060 I can also confirm this. OS: Ubuntu 10.10, Gnome, Compiz fully updated Banshe: 1.9 from the daily PPA, downloaded this morning. Formats affect: All? (AVI and mp4 tested) System: Dell Opitplex-GX270
"Me too" comments are not helpful - provide logs instead, please.
Created attachment 175464 [details] Banshee Debug log (Ubuntu 10.10)
I couldn't find any documentation on where the log file should be (it wasn't under ~/config/banshee-1, I did check the Help and tried searching too) so all I could attach was the output from the CLI. Sorry if this is not enough. I open the video, let it run with the black screen for about 10 seconds, moved the window so that it displayed, let it run for a few more seconds and then quit. FWIW Stoyan had already attached a log for this behaviour and the bug was still listed as Unconfirmed, I was just trying to add weight to his message.
when running banshee-1 --debug --redirect-log the log file is always found as ~/.config/banshee-1/log
Banshee is not under active development anymore and had its last code changes more than three years ago. Its codebase has been archived. Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this ticket (or rather transfer the project to GNOME Gitlab, as GNOME Bugzilla is being shut down) if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again. See https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/Infrastructure/issues/264 for more info.