Re: MediaView control says: 'Could not initialize Xv output'

[Gianluigi <gradobag@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Il 28/08/25 17:39, gbWilly ha scritto:
> On Thursday, August 28th, 2025 at 17:01, Lee <t.lee.davidson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On 8/28/25 10:19 AM, gbWilly wrote:
> >
> > > When I install VLC onto the vm's it does play video, so playing videos should be possible, but gstreamer doesn't play along.
> >
> >
> > I tried finding info about that, but most of the posts on the internet are old. One, from an Nvidia forum, that is only three
> > years old says, "For using xvimagesink, it requires DISPLAY setting like: export DISPLAY=:0(or 1)"
> >
> > Perhaps QEMU has an issue as it has to "borrow" the display from the host.
> I stumbled on the same old info and searching for this problem on QEMU was even worse.
> xvimagesinl, imagesink and audiovideosink if I remember well, where mentioned and changing between them sometimes seemed to make a difference.
> But, I have no idea where and how to check this configuration. let alone change it. It seems to be related to keeping things in sink, maybe?
>
> It might well be that QEMU has an issue as it uses a virtual display driver and there are some different ones to use, but that didn't change a thing.
>
> Just wanted to make sure if, maybe, someone has some expertise on the matter and if not, bad luck.

> ...there is always a Catch if things go wrong!

Hi Willy,

You can rule out Qemu as the cause; the cause must be found elsewhere.
It works on Mint 22.
I'm attaching an image and the configuration file.

Regards

Gianluigi

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