[PD] error: pix_video: could not initialise COM

chris clepper cgclepper at gmail.com
Thu Nov 9 01:27:34 CET 2006


That's a relief because I had no idea what was wrong with the code!

Your method for figuring out the solution should probably go somewhere
on the puredata site.

On 11/7/06, Drew Browning <drew at uic.edu> wrote:
> Problem solved! In short, it was a service called app_filter. Disabling
> that service fixed the problem.
>
> Here's what I did:
> I went back to the advice Carmen gave a year ago about making sure certain
> services were running.
> http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2005-11/032424.html
> Although those particular services were running I had not tried disabling
> all the others. There are so many services I was fearful of screwing up my
> machine. I guess I was now frustrated enough to try anything. I ran
> services.msc and disabled everything else and pix_video worked! Then I
> re-enabled each service until I found the culprit ... a tedious process.
>
> I have no idea what app_filter is but I hope this might help someone else
> if they encounter the same problem.
>
> Drew
>
> At 08:24 PM 11/3/2006, chris clepper wrote:
> >On 11/3/06, Drew Browning <<mailto:drew at uic.edu>drew at uic.edu> wrote:
> >Hey Chris,
> >The OS is 32 bit: Windows XP Home Edition, Version 2002, Service Pack 2
> >Drew
> >
> >
> >I have an Intel CoreDuo laptop running that exact OS with no problems.  I
> >didn't install anything other than Pd and it has captured hundreds of
> >clips from a DV cam so far.   Unfortunately, I don't know what to suggest
> >as a solution to this problem.
> >
> >Chris
>
>




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