[GEM-dev] Can't play transparent videos

Antoine Villeret antoine.villeret at gmail.com
Sat Jul 4 15:27:16 CEST 2020


btw, I was testing with this file :
https://s3.amazonaws.com/vidvox/hap/Hap_Test_Odd_Dimensions.zip

Le sam. 4 juil. 2020 à 15:25, Antoine Villeret <antoine.villeret at gmail.com>
a écrit :

> 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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>>> >> http://www.hellocatfood.com
>>> >> ============================
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
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>>
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