[PD] gem windows stability questions

[David Powers]

I'm on Windows, and strangely my experience is the exact opposite:

I can ONLY use quicktime movies. AVI movies ALWAYS crash GEM instantly. And
yet everyone else seems to have the opposite problem?!!!

~David

On 6/22/06, ingo randolf <ingo at subnet.at> wrote:
>
> i solved the instability by avoiding the quicktime movies.
> seems to be some problem with windows, the quicktime sdk and gem?
>
> now i use avi files, xvid-encoded with only i-frames.
> works fine now.
>
> greets
> io
>
>
> Am 20.06.2006 um 18:43 schrieb ingo randolf:
>
> > hello.
> >
> > can somebody give me some hints to make my patch more stable?
> >
> > my system:
> > winXP
> > dualcore 3GHz intel
> > 1 GB RAM
> > gem 0.90.1
> >
> >
> > im using the [pix_film] object to play some movies (quicktime:
> > 1024x768 25fps - foto-jpg compression). im using [auto 0] and trigger
> > every single frame by a [metro 40] according to the length of the
> > movie.
> >
> > if the movie is loaded and plays the patch is stable, it seems that
> > there is some problem when i load a new moviefile. thats the most
> > propable situation for a crash.
> >
> > is this a problem with quicktime?
> > can i unload a loaded movie before loading a new file?
> > which codec should i use if i use avi? is there difference in
> > stability?
> >
> > thanks for help.
> > ~io
> >
> >
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