[PD] Why does PixelTANGO crash on Pd-extended 0.38 on Windows XP?

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at eds.org
Wed May 24 23:22:25 CEST 2006


You could convert your .avis to another format, like .mov.

.hc

On May 24, 2006, at 8:36 PM, David Powers wrote:

> I'm running GEM on Windows. In my latest patch, I'm loading up 12  
> quicktimes all at once to different GEM heads, and turning all but  
> the one I want off, and sending all 12 into the same [pd  
> some_pix_fx] -> [pix_texture] -> [rectangle]. This may take more  
> memory, but to tell the truth, the performance has been quite  
> stable. But, I use loadbangs to load all of these up at startup,  
> before I create the gemwin.
>
> However, the problem is that I prefer to do quick edits on video  
> clips with Virtual Dub, and that's obviously not possible. I don't  
> know of any free or open source video editor for quicktime, that is  
> really fast (and linear). I will end up using Adobe Premier, but  
> it's totally overkill and not so efficient for the simple edits I  
> want to do. When time is short, quick interfaces become incredibly  
> important.
>
> Anyway, my advise is, if using GEM on winsows avoid AVI like the  
> plague... They ALL crash it, regardless of codec, in my experience.  
> Or, follow the advice of "c" and learn vvvv, that's what I'm going  
> to use to play glitched up AVI's in my upcoming show. Though having  
> to learn two quite different modular programs, when you're just  
> starting to get comfortable with one, is somewhat of a pain!
>
> ~David
>
> On 5/24/06, c <_ at whats-your.name> wrote:
> > Has this been discussed before? Do you know if there's another  
> codec that works?
>
> none?. even the homer video displayed weird for me... i guess most  
> people who are serious about windows and graphical dataflow  
> patching have swayed towards VVVV, since it fully embraces all that  
> is DirectX/DirectShow/etc..
>
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