Re: Cannot play videos using gstreamer

[Nikolay Dimitrov <picmaster@mail.bg>]

Hi Isaac,

On 05/04/2015 03:47 PM, Isaac Nickaein wrote:
> Hi Nikolay,
>
> The issue #1 (using mfw_v4sink) solved by using customized kernel
> 3.16 provided by board manufacturer (Ka-Ro), so I guess 3.0.35 was
> causing the problem.
>
> But the issue #2 (using glimagesink) is present in kernel 3.16 too.
> Here is its bootlog: http://pastebin.com/RRs75zWG. Nevertheless, I
> am not targeting for 3.16 and tried it as a test.
>
> I have tried Kernel 3.10.17 from Yocto Dizzy and Kernel 3.10.53 from
> Freescale, but there is some problem during boot. I've posted more
> details on their issue as a separate thread:
> https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/meta-freescale/2015-May/013720.html
>
>
>
> Bests, Isaac
>
>
>
> On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 8:48 PM, Nikolay Dimitrov <picmaster@mail.bg>
> wrote:
>> Hi Isaac,
>>
>> On 05/03/2015 04:29 PM, Isaac Nickaein wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> I was using Kernel 3.0.35 and that had issues. Issue #1 got fixed
>>> by using a newer kernel (Kernel 3.16 image provided by Ka-Ro).
>>> However, the issue #2 and #3 are still present (I have problem
>>> with using glimagesink; adding "eglinfo-fb" package in local.conf
>>> causes compile error).
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Isaac Nickaein
>>> <nickaein.i@gmail.com <mailto:nickaein.i@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've repo synced my Yocto Dizzy and created a core-image-minimal
>>> image. The local.conf is presented at the end of this email.
>>>
>>> The problem is I cannot get any display output using GStreamer,
>>> while my Qt program (which is built using toolchain by "bitbake
>>> meta-toolchain-qte") have display output. What I have tried:
>>>
>>> 1. Using mfw_v4lsink:
>>>
>>> gst-launch -v filesrc location=test.mp4 typefind=true ! aiurdemux
>>> ! queue ! vpudec ! mfw_v4lsink
>>>
>>> doesn't fail, but does not show anything on the display. Here is
>>> log output: http://pastebin.com/TWtNCViT
>>
>>
>> Have you tried the following, should be the simplest way to try
>> gstreamer:
>>
>> gst-launch playbin2 uri=file:///test.mp4
>>
>>
>>> 2. Using glimagesink:
>>>
>>> gst-launch filesrc location=test.mp4 typefind=true ! aiurdemux !
>>> queue ! vpudec ! glimagesink
>>>
>>> fails with the following output:
>>>
>>> Setting pipeline to PAUSED ... Caught SIGSEGV accessing address
>>> 0x4d0 exec gdb failed: No such file or directory Spinning.
>>> Please run 'gdb gst-launch 1405' to continue debugging, Ctrl-C to
>>> quit, or Ctrl-\ to dump core.
>>>
>>>
>>> 3. I wondered adding "eglinfo-fb" recipe could be helpful (?),
>>> but it caused a compile error during bitbake. Here is output:
>>> http://pastebin.com/EQC464iM
>>>
>>>
>>> And this is the local.conf that I am using:
>>>
>>> MACHINE ??= 'imx6qsabresd' DISTRO ?= 'poky' PACKAGE_CLASSES ?=
>>> "package_rpm" EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES = "debug-tweaks" USER_CLASSES
>>> ?= "buildstats image-mklibs image-prelink" PATCHRESOLVE = "noop"
>>> BB_DISKMON_DIRS = "\ STOPTASKS,${TMPDIR},1G,100K \
>>> STOPTASKS,${DL_DIR},1G,100K \ STOPTASKS,${SSTATE_DIR},1G,100K \
>>> ABORT,${TMPDIR},100M,1K \ ABORT,${DL_DIR},100M,1K \
>>> ABORT,${SSTATE_DIR},100M,1K" PACKAGECONFIG_append_pn-qemu-native
>>> = " sdl" PACKAGECONFIG_append_pn-nativesdk-qemu = " sdl"
>>> ASSUME_PROVIDED += "libsdl-native" CONF_VERSION = "1"
>>>
>>> BB_NUMBER_THREADS = '4' PARALLEL_MAKE = '-j 4'
>>>
>>> DL_DIR ?= "${BSPDIR}/downloads/" ACCEPT_FSL_EULA = ""
>>>
>>> KERNEL_IMAGETYPE_forcevariable = "uImage"
>>>
>>> IMAGE_INSTALL_append = "\ wget \ nano \ fbida \ bash \
>>> firmware-imx \ fsl-rc-local \ packagegroup-core-ssh-openssh \
>>> mtd-utils \ nfs-utils \ iproute2 \ canutils \ libsocketcan \
>>> fbset \ fbset-modes \ glib-2.0 \ libstdc++ \ gpu-viv-bin-mx6q \
>>> libxdamage \ libxfixes \ libxext \ libx11 \ libxcb \ libxau \
>>> libxdmcp \ ntp \ proftpd \ tzdata \ packagegroup-fsl-gstreamer \
>>> gst-fsl-plugin \ gstreamer \ gst-plugins-bad \ imx-vpu \
>>> gst-plugins-gl \ gst-plugins-base \ gst-plugins-gl-opengl \
>>> v4l-utils \ "
>>
>>
>> Two more things: 1. Can you please paste the bootlog? 2. Dizzy uses
>> FSL kernel 3.10.17 for sabresd, where gstreamer is known to work
>> for most users. Can you try a standard, "out-of-the-box" build on
>> your sabresd and share the results? I'm regularly doing
>> test/comparison builds for sabresd and haven't seen any oddities
>> like the mentioned above.
>>
>> Regards, Nikolay

I don't see the "video=" settings in your kernel command line. Without
them I doubt you'll have any video. Please configure your bootloader to
pass the "video=" settings in bootargs.

Regards,
Nikolay