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On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 09:33 +0200, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Joseph Barrows wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> hi,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> i am having trouble with GEM, it only reads .MOV and only some of those </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> (has to be motion jpeg, but still not all of them open)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> apparently GEM video support is defined at compile time, so i was </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> wondering what libraries are used in the sourceforge build environment.</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">"mpeg" and "mpeg-3" are just able to decode mpeg-file, which you don't </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">seem to care about right now.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">the funnier parts are quicktime and aviplay; these APIs both support a </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">number of codecs depending on how they were compiled and/or which codecs </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">they find on your harddisk.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">(i think libquicktime have changed their policy to just include built-in </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">codecs; whereas aviplay uses external codecs)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">so the key thing to do to get more movies to load is to either update </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">these libraries or install (or update) packages that provide codecs.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">on debian, one beloved package used to be "avifile-win32-plugin" from </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">debian-multimedia-org, which would provide a number of non-free </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">(potentially copyright and/or patent protected) codecs as w32-dlls.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">i don't know whether there is this package for ubuntu (or whether you </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">can "just use" the debian-multimedia packages)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">due to the potentially illegal nature of some codec packages available </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">in the net, these packages vanish from time to time.</FONT>
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There is a Media Ubuntu repository that has the restricted copyright codecs: <A HREF="http://www.medibuntu.org/">Medibuntu</A><BR>
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