[GEM-dev] Can't play transparent videos

Antoine Villeret antoine.villeret at gmail.com
Sat Jul 4 15:25:41 CEST 2020


my bad, the right message to enable alpha rendering is : [property alpha
yes(

Le sam. 4 juil. 2020 à 15:21, Antoine Villeret <antoine.villeret at gmail.com>
a écrit :

> The gitlab repo is more up-to-date, I just archive the github one and put
> a forward link in the readme.md.
> The issue regarding alpha is also present on gitlab.
> But I just tried it and it works fine with HAP Alpha after manually
> enabling alpha rendering (send [alpha on( see [pd alpha] subpatcher in help
> file).
> I'll update the issue asap.
>
> cheers
> a
>
> Le sam. 4 juil. 2020 à 13:21, Antonio Roberts <antonio at hellocatfood.com>
> a écrit :
>
>> Hi Antoine,
>>
>> I've tried each file (hap, png, vp9 encoded) with gem_filmAVI,
>> gem_filmAVIPLAY, gem_filmQT4L, gem_filmMPEG3, gem_filmMPEG1.
>>
>> Per the instructions on this report
>> https://github.com/umlaeute/Gem/issues/239 I have removed gmerlin.
>>
>> > There is a mpv external that allow you to play lots of video format
>> (including hap with alpha channel).
>> > It might be in deken or here https://gitlab.com/antoine.villeret/pd-mpv
>> Is this the same ass here? https://github.com/avilleret/gem-mpv if so
>> I've tried this as well and can't get transparency (see this bug
>> report https://github.com/avilleret/gem-mpv/issues/4 )
>>
>> Antonio
>>
>> On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 at 10:36, Antoine Villeret
>> <antoine.villeret at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Which backend are you using ?
>> > Gmerlin use to crash without further notice when trying to load
>> unsupported files.
>> > There is a mpv external that allow you to play lots of video format
>> (including hap with alpha channel).
>> > It might be in deken or here https://gitlab.com/antoine.villeret/pd-mpv
>> >
>> > Kind regards
>> >
>> > Antoine
>> >
>> > Le sam. 4 juil. 2020 à 00:49, Antonio Roberts <antonio at hellocatfood.com>
>> a écrit :
>> >>
>> >> I have several videos that are encoded using png, hap, and vp9 codecs,
>> >> each one of which supports transparency.
>> >>
>> >> Whenever I load them into GEM they either immediately crash Pure Data
>> >> or they crash it when [auto( is sent. The terminal isn't sharing
>> >> anything useful (Pd: signal 6). Is playing transparent videos
>> >> possible?
>> >>
>> >> I'm using GEM 0.94 on Ubuntu 20.04. I've described this in more detail
>> >> and provided sample files here:
>> >> https://github.com/umlaeute/Gem/issues/239
>> >>
>> >> Antonio
>> >> --
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>> >>
>> >>
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