[PD] compression codecs

[chris clepper]

>hi,
>are there any _good_ compression codecs to produce video files pd can
>handle?
>'cause cinepak is not really satisfactory ...

what OS are you using and what do you mean by 'good'?   if good means 
nice images with little compression artifacts then that suggests a 
different set of codecs than small file size or fast decompression.

here's a summary of each platform's codec handling:

OSX - anything QuickTime handles can be played with the exception of 
MPEG-1(which is bad for real-time anyway).  a good all around codec 
is photo-jpeg which despite it's name actually looks great when used 
for video.

Linux - handles MPEG-1 files and a small selection of QuickTIme 
codecs which are mainly the uncompressed ones and jpeg codecs like 
motion-jpeg and photo-jpeg

Windows - i have had terrible luck getting this version of GEM to 
reliably use codecs on different boxes running the various flavors of 
windows.  for example my win2k box only likes cinepak but a friend's 
XP box will only play Indeo (3?) codecs.  both of these are ancient 
and look pretty awful.  maybe someone could post how to get the 
various codec installed on a windows system to work in GEM.  or 
better yet write a QT .mov player for windows and be done with it.

cgc

>thanks for suggestions...
>
>chris
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