Cannot get imxg2dvideosink to work

[sols]

We are having an issue with an i.MX6 board trying to play a video. The system is running Ubuntu "oneiric" and comes with gstreamer-0.10. So far we have been using the mfw_v4lsink module but somehow a couple of pixels get cut off around the edge, thus we tried to upgrade to gstreamer-1.x which fixed the same issue on another i.MX6 system. Our gstreamer pipeline looks something like this:

gst-launch-1.0 udpsrc [..] ! rtpmp4vdepay ! mpeg4videoparse ! imxvpudec ! progressreport update-freq=1 ! imxg2dvideosink use-vsync=false sync=false

Unfortunately the new imxg2dvideosink module seems unhappy:

Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...

g2d_alloc: alloc memory fail with size 16!

ERROR: Pipeline doesn't want to pause.

Setting pipeline to NULL ...

Freeing pipeline ...

Some more details about the system:

• The board is an iW-RainboW-G15M from iWave
• It's running kernel 3.0.35-2666-gbdde708
• The vivante libraries we tried to use are from version 3.10.17-1.0.2
• The gstreamer version we tried is 1.6.4

Does anyone have an idea about why this might be failing?

[igorpadykov]

Hi Stefan

imxg2dvideosink is GStreamer-imx plugins (created by community),

while NXP GStreamer Plugins (fsl-gst-plugin package) do not support

gstreamer-1.x with kernel 3.0.35 (support start from 3.10.31).

Difference between these two types of  plugins is described on

http://trac.gateworks.com/wiki/Yocto/gstreamer

It may sense to post this on meta-fsl-arm mailing list, so that someone

familiar with them could try to assist you.

https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/meta-freescale

Best regards

igor

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