[PD] background pics in pd/quicktime codecs in gem

[guenter geiger]

On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Orm Finnendahl wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> 2 questions:
>
> 1. Is there a way to load bitmap images into a patcher as a background
>    image?
>

There is an external in the CVS of ggee which loads images.
its called ... image
Very simple, just a gif image loader .....
... and I have heard rumours that  Thomas Musil is working on
a similar external ... so you might take a look at iemlib

Guenter





>
> 2. Using Gem with a Linux System I try to play back an Apple Quicktime
>    Movie. I get the following eror:
>
>
> pix_film:: quicktime4linux support
> pix_film:: libmpeg3 support
> Trying to load external codec quicktime_codec_rpza.so
> Can't load the codec
> quicktime_codec_rpza.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> Trying to load external codec quicktime_codec_rpza.so
> Can't load the codec
> quicktime_codec_rpza.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> GEM: pix_film: unsupported CODEC 'rpza'!
> quicktime_delete_vcodec_stub called
>
>    It might be a misconfiguration as I found out that rpza is the
>    standard Apple Quicktime codec and Gem's docs say this format is
>    supported. If I can't get this to work: Does anybody know of any
>    way to convert a quicktime Movie to Mpeg2 on a Linux machine or a Mac?
>
>
> --
> Orm
>
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