[SOLVED] Videos Fail to Open in Totem

TheChickenMan · 2016-12-01 10:58:33

I'm having some issues opening a series of video files using Totem. I'm not certain when the error started as I generally do not use this as my main video viewer but noted the issue do to a failure in thumbnailing of video files. The video files open fine in my other computers running Arch with Totem. Note that none of the working computers are running Intel graphics and thus have a different libva driver. I posted information I believe relevant to my system and troubleshooting below.

 $ totem "seminar.mp4"

libva info: VA-API version 0.39.4
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/dri/i965_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_0_39
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
libva info: VA-API version 0.39.4
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/dri/i965_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_0_39
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
libva info: VA-API version 0.39.4
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/dri/i965_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_0_39
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0

(totem:2473): Gtk-WARNING **: Drawing a gadget with negative dimensions. Did you forget to allocate a size? (node slider owner GtkScale)

(totem:2473): Totem-WARNING **: Failed to reset the playback rate to 1.0

$ ls -l /usr/lib/dri

total 2088
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   22648 Nov 11 12:19 dummy_drv_video.so*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2113184 Nov 11 12:21 i965_drv_video.so*

$ pacman -Qs libva

local/libva 1.7.3-1
    Video Acceleration (VA) API for Linux
local/libva-intel-driver 1.7.3-1
    VA-API implementation for Intel G45 and HD Graphics family

$ pacman -Qi totem

Name            : totem
Version         : 3.22.0+5+ge0bf46e-1
Description     : Movie player for the GNOME desktop based on GStreamer
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Videos
Licenses        : GPL2  custom
Groups          : gnome
Provides        : None
Depends On      : totem-plparser  iso-codes  libpeas  clutter-gtk  clutter-gst
                  grilo  gsettings-desktop-schemas  dconf  python-gobject
                  python-xdg  gnome-desktop  gst-plugins-base  gst-plugins-good
                  gst-plugins-bad
Optional Deps   : gst-plugins-ugly: Extra media codecs [installed]
                  gst-libav: Extra media codecs [installed]
                  lirc-utils: Infrared Remote Control plugin [installed]
                  grilo-plugins: Media discovery [installed]
                  python-dbus: MPRIS plugin [installed]
Required By     : None
Optional For    : None
Conflicts With  : totem-plugin
Replaces        : totem-plugin
Installed Size  : 7.90 MiB
Packager        : Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <jan.steffens@gmail.com>
Build Date      : Wed 28 Sep 2016 09:12:32 AM EDT
Install Date    : Thu 01 Dec 2016 05:37:09 AM EST
Install Reason  : Explicitly installed
Install Script  : No
Validated By    : Signature

$ vainfo

libva info: VA-API version 0.39.4
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/dri/i965_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_0_39
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
vainfo: VA-API version: 0.39 (libva 1.7.3)
vainfo: Driver version: Intel i965 driver for Intel(R) Sandybridge Mobile - 1.7.3
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
      VAProfileMPEG2Simple            :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileMPEG2Main              :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline:	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline:	VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileH264Main               :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264Main               :	VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileH264High               :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264High               :	VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileH264StereoHigh         :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Simple              :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Main                :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Advanced            :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileNone                   :	VAEntrypointVideoProc

Last edited by TheChickenMan (2016-12-02 20:51:25)

TheChickenMan · 2016-12-02 16:18:34

It looks like it might be this bug. I'll try removing gstreamer-vaapi and see if that allows to work around the issue.

Edit: Confirmed that it is in fact due to this bug. Removing gstreamer-vaapi "solves" the issue.

Last edited by TheChickenMan (2016-12-02 20:52:52)

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#1 2016-12-01 10:58:33

[SOLVED] Videos Fail to Open in Totem

#2 2016-12-02 16:18:34

Re: [SOLVED] Videos Fail to Open in Totem

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