<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Johannes!<div><br></div><div>Thanks a lot for the quick answer!</div><div><br></div><div>1. I did not use the latest version of gem and pd. sorry. i had pd 0.42.4 and the current official gem release.</div><div>since the update it works fine on all computers.</div><div><br></div><div>here is the gem printout:</div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; ">GEM: Graphics Environment for Multimedia</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; ">GEM: ver: 0.92.CVS </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; ">GEM: compiled: May 28 2009</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; ">...</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; ">GEM: using SSE2 optimization</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; ">Gem Man: QT init OK</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; ">pix_film:: directshow support</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; ">pix_film:: quicktime support</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; ">[pix_movie]: opening T:/Daten/Hannes/VideoPlayer/./patches/../data/rem-leaving.avi with format 1908</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; ">Trying DirectShow</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; ">[pix_movie]: loaded file: T:/Daten/Hannes/VideoPlayer/./patches/../data/rem-leaving.avi with 4250 frames (640x480) at -1.000000 fps</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; ">GEM: GLEW version 1.5.1</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; ">GEM: Start rendering</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; ">GL: invalid enumerant</div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">obviously pix_movie uses dirct show.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">my avi format ist motion jpeg. i use the same avi files on all 4 computers. </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">i found out that motion jpeg is the only format that i am able to playback with pix_movie. but i omit that i gave up trying after the 5th or so codec.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">do i need to worry about:</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; ">"GL: invalid enumerant"</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; ">so, again, thanks!</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; ">i have a question regarding recommended codecs, i will put this in a new thread.</div></span></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">all the best from overcast vienna,</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">hannes</span></font></div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><br></span></font></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div><div>Am 15.06.2009 um 11:16 schrieb IOhannes m zmoelnig:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hannes Breitschädel wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Hi List!<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">setup: Windows XP-SP 3 / latests Gem / PD Release. (June 12/09)<br></blockquote><br>just to make sure, your "latest" is the same as mine:<br>Pd-vanilla 0.42.5<br>Gem 0.92CVS20090528<br><br>if not, please specify full version numbers.<br><br><blockquote type="cite">My patch opens a motion jpeg coded avi-file with "pix_movie" and plays it back by "manually" switching the frames with a counter.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Although no autoplay message is sent to pix_movie the movie starts to play immediatedly after opening the file instead of instantly showing the first frame.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I tested on 4 different WinXP PCs and found out that the movie did not automatically play on 2 of them and 2 other showed the problem.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">There seems to be a correlation with Quicktime. At first pix_movie worked only on one pc. i had to install<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">quicktime on the second computer and then it worked fine. unfortunately the installation of quicktime did not<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">help on the second and third computer.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">any ideas?<br></blockquote><br>[pix_movie] uses QuickTime and/or DirectShow (and/or vfw) to decode videos on w32.<br>if it can find QuickTime at runtime, it will prioritize this over DirectShow. if a movie cannot be opened by QuickTime, then it will fall back to DirectShow.<br>while we are trying our best to make the decoding work the same with all backends, sometimes there are inconsitencies (bugs!).<br><br>so, it seems like in your case using QuickTime made the problem go away (so the QuickTime backend behaves as it should; while the DirectShow backend probably does not. are you using the same video-files on all machines or are they differing (e.g. Gem finds that it cannot use QuickTime and falls back to DirectShow)<br><br>you find a bit of information when you carefully look at the output inthe Pd-console. (things like "QuickTime: initialized"; or the number of "..." lines when opening a file)<br><br><br><blockquote type="cite">does pix_movie depend on the graphics-card?<br></blockquote><br>well, it depends on openGL as it directly uses textures to display the frames. there souldn't be a difference in the functionality of [pix_movie] regardless which gfx-card you use (and the only thing that _might_ happen is problems with texturing; nothing that is related to atuo-playing)<br><br><br>gfasdrm<br>IOhannes<br><br></div></blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>----------------------------------------------------</div><div>Hannes Breitschädel</div><div>tel. +43 699 - 19 20 62 05</div><div>----------------------------------------------------</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div><br></div></div></body></html>