[PD] Trying to play a movie with GEM/pd

[David Powers]

I've mentioned this before but with all versions of GEM that I've used
on WinXP, AVI's crash PD. Quicktime, however, DOES work, despite
something in the help file saying that it doesn't work on Win. So I've
been using Quicktime movies that I find.

My only problem with it, is that there is no open source editor for
quicktime movies, whereas if AVI could work I could use Virtual Dub or
something similar. Seems like we really need some kind of
cross-platform, high-quality video standard for open source, like OGG
or FLAC for audio. In the meantime, I can't really use my own video -
I'm stuck stealing whatever quicktime movies I can find on the net,
which is far from ideal.

~David

On 8/23/06, IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig at iem.at> wrote:
> Javier García wrote:
> > IOhannes wrote:
> >
> >>> see the help-patches for [pix_movie], [pix_film] and [pix_texture].
> >
> >
> > thanks IOhannes,
> >
> > i just tried to open several avi's with the example patch pix_movie.pd
> > and pd crashes always.
> >
> > some goes wrong?
>
> we still do not know which exact(!) version of Gem you use.
> without that knowledge we cannot help you much.
>
> however, you might experience codec problems.
> do the example movies that come with Gem (homer.avi, anim-1.mov) work?
> if the codec is the problem, feel free to search the archives of the
> pd-list; this has often been discussed.
>
> chris clepper has recently been working on a DirectShow based
> film-loader which should solve a lot of problems for w32 users.
>
> mfga.sdf
> IOhannes
>
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