Re: Array CD 6

On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 12:39:17PM -0500, deelerious wrote:

> Some more VMWare fun. Array6, all defaults installation. Totem is
> preconfigured for XWindows (X11/XShm/Xv) output. As a result, after
> launch it pops up a dialog box saying "Totem could not startup.
> Resource busy or not available" and then quits. No other indication
> what to do. Changing the video output to XWindows (no Xv) makes it
> work.
> 
> I'm not even sure if this shouldn't be considered an upstream issue.
> However, the question is: should Totem be configured for the least
> common denominator so that it "just works" out of the box? Or,
> alternatively, direct the user to System>Preferences>Multimedia Systems
> Selector to change their settings to make it work?

Video playback without Xv isn't really practical; it uses a huge amount of
CPU at any reasonable display size.  Ideally it should fall back to non-Xv
if it isn't available, but enabling Xv is the proper default.

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 - mdz