Bug#711477: general: Videos are not visible in VMware Workstation

[Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@gmail.com>]

Package: general
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I've installed Debian 7 as a guest OS in VMware 9.0.2, which is running in a
Gentoo Linux AMD64 host. Trying to play videos in any software that uses
GStreamer results in the audio being played normally, but the video is not
visible. Instead, a dark gray area is displayed. This happens with Totem Movie
Player, but also with my own software which also uses GStreamer (utilizing the
playbin2 element).

This happens with all videos, regardless of video format. I should mention that
this happens with both instances of Debian 7 I've installed: x86 and x86-64.
Also, these are fresh installations and I didn't change any system settings or
added third-party repositories, with the exception of having installed VMware
Tools.

I am able to play video normally in my openSUSE, Fedora and Ubuntu guests.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash