[PD] wmv playback in puredata / gem

[derek holzer]

AFAIK, GEM and PDP both use Quicktime to play videos. So you'd need WMV 
support in quicktime, at least on OSX and Linux.

In the case of OSX, you could check to see if it's using your installed 
version of Quicktime or something else. There are commercial solutions 
to play WMV in Quicktime such as flip4mac. Maybe Jamie or one of the 
other OSX GEM devs can tell you more.

In the case of Linux, it depends on how you compile libquicktime. If 
you're running an x86/intel machine, you could investigate getting the 
windows codecs installed.

In the case of Windows, I have no idea. [pix_film] should decode AVIs 
and maybe MOVs.

I guess transcoding the offending videos into something usable isn't an 
option? The recommended codec fro GEM and PDP both is a  Quicktime MOV 
with PhotoJPG compression.

good luck,
d.

Joseph Barrows wrote:
> hi,
> has anyone played .wmv files in puredata / gem ? or other graphic addons 
> for puredata?


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