[GEM-dev] [pix_film] issues on linux

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

That sounds like this issue:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php? 
func=detail&aid=1771966&group_id=64325&atid=507079

Do you have an ATI graphics card?   Maybe you could post your info to  
that bug thread.

.hc

On Sep 19, 2007, at 8:44 PM, Roman Haefeli wrote:

> hi all
>
> there was a thread these days on pdmtl mailing list about how to  
> encode
> movie files, so that they can be easily read by [pix_film]. it turned
> out that this is not an easy task at all. some reported crashes, when
> loading movie-files. here on my computer i can load most of the files,
> though cpu goes up to 100%, when turning rendering on, even when
> displaying constantly the same frame. cpu goes down, when rendering is
> turned off again.
>
> the only movie i found, that was working without issues, is  
> 'anim-1.mov'
> that is shipped with gem. but also the other movie-files from the
> data-folder eat my cpu, when loaded.
>
> i tried to locate the problem by compiling gem with support only for
> certain libraries instead of all. but any mjpeg/mov file i tried was
> eating my cpu, no matter if it was loaded by libquicktime or by ffmpeg
> (btw: is there a better way to force a certain library to use  
> instead of
> compiling gem with support only for one library?).
>
> in any tests i did, i didn't encounter any errors in pd-window.
>
> i'd like document these issues a bit better in order to provide you
> detailed and usefull information. though i am actually uncertain, what
> is the best way to do that, since there are so many variables like
> different libraries, different versions of these libraries, different
> codecs/formats, even movies with the same format/coded behave  
> completely
> different sometimes. any hint on that is much appreciated.
>
> also i'd like to know, if [pix_film] is working well, what libraries
> have you enabled, what versions of this, how to you encode movies  
> to be
> played by [pix_film].
>
> cheers
> roman
>
>
>
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