8 color mode

[reed123]

System info: Intel 3xxx i7 AMD GPU Ubuntu Server 22.04.2

Problem: UxPlay only renders in 8 color mode when run from the console. This issue does not occur when X server is running.

Is there maybe a video sink argument I can use to force it to render with 256 color?

[fduncanh]

probably.

Does "-vs kmssink" work?

EDIT @reed123 yes it does (tested in ubuntu 22.04.1 console (tested with nvidia / nouveau graphics, though))

[reed123]

Hi - thanks for the reply. That also doesn’t work - but it says “GStreamer encountered a general resource error” and never shows the stream. Do you have any other ideas? This will definitely help point me in the right direction alot though.

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probably.

Does "-vs kmssink" work?

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[fduncanh]

@reed123

It did work for me on ubuntu 22.04, after shutting down X11, the console graphics was a nvidia card with the nouveau driver.

It didnt work on openSUSE, where the console graphics was using the nvidia driver, and it didnt work on an AMD system with a radeon card.

So kmssink should in principle work (that's what get used on Raspberry Pi without X), but ...

try using "export GST_DEBUG=2" befor running uxplay (and then GST_DEBUG=4) to see if GStreamer messages give any clue

[fduncanh]

@reed123 I found that on OpenSUSE with nvidia graphics and nivdia drivers , -vs fbdevsink worked but the image was too big, so some width and height parameters need to be set. see

https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/fbdevsink/index.html?gi-language=c#fbdevsink

another videosink for framebuffer video is -vs dfbvideosink https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/directfb/index.html?gi-language=c#dfbvideosink

but it was missing on my systems

[fduncanh]

dfbvideosink uses "directfb"

dont know if it can work for you, through, seems to be aimed at R Pi now (after being dead for 10 years)

https://github.com/directfb2/

[fduncanh]

@reed123 Maybe you need some AMD GPU driver to use the kmssink framebuffer videosink?

https://www.amd.com/en/support/linux-drivers

Your issue is a GStreamer one to do with your graphics hardware, I think. Not sure I can help more.

[fduncanh]

closing (feel free to reopen or post more details of your attempts )