Banshee 1.2.1 -- No video

**bark50** · September 21st, 2008

I recently installed Banshee 1.2.1. in Hardy. Playing videos, I can get sound put usually only see a black screen. Occasionally I get the video, but it disappears when I go to full screen and stays gone if I go back to regular mode. These are mostly wmv and flv I am trying to view. They play fine in MPlayer and VLC. Is there an easy solution for the complete idiot other than abandoning Banshee for another media player? Thanks!

**RobLoach** · October 6th, 2008

Originally Posted by bark50

I recently installed Banshee 1.2.1. in Hardy. Playing videos, I can get sound put usually only see a black screen. Occasionally I get the video, but it disappears when I go to full screen and stays gone if I go back to regular mode. These are mostly wmv and flv I am trying to view. They play fine in MPlayer and VLC. Is there an easy solution for the complete idiot other than abandoning Banshee for another media player? Thanks!

I believe this is because of GStreamer vs XINE. Try switching over to xine instead of gstreamer from synaptic and see if that fixes it. Not entirely sure though....

**RobLoach** · October 15th, 2008

Xine didn't do it. I'm still hitting the same problem.

**bark50** · October 16th, 2008

I got Banshee's video to work by doing the following:

1.Open up the terminal and type in (without the quotes) “gstreamer-properties”.
2.A box opens up called “Multimedia Systems Selector.” Click on the video tab.
3.Where it says “Default Output Plugin:” select "X Window System (No Xv)".

This worked for me. According to a post in the Banshee forum, doing this results in an increased CPU load. (http://www.nabble.com/Audio%2C-no-vi...html#a18120808) However, even before making this change, I noticed enabling Banshee's equalizer caused crackles and stutters in my music collection. I finally just uninstalled Banshee entirely; there are enough good music and video players for my needs that I felt no need to hassle anymore with this player.

**RobLoach** · October 16th, 2008

That did it! Thanks a lot.... "X Window System (No Xv)" worked perfectly.

The sound is crackling for you? It's fine here... Are you using the right gstreamer plugins? Check synaptic...