[PD] error: pix_video: could not initialise COM

Drew Browning drew at uic.edu
Fri Nov 3 23:01:02 CET 2006


Hey Chris,
The OS is 32 bit: Windows XP Home Edition, Version 2002, Service Pack 2
Drew

At 02:49 PM 11/3/2006, chris clepper wrote:
>Hi Drew
>
>I tested the DirectShow code on an Athlon64 laptop (much of it was
>written on one).  I don't have any AMD machines to test with now
>though.  The COM initialization is the very first check done before
>DirectShow is even called and all DirectShow code has to have that COM
>code.  I haven't even seen that error happen since COM is pretty basic
>for the MS OSes - kind of like saying you don't have any OS installed.
>
>Which service packs do you have installed?  Is this a 64bit or 32 bit OS?
>
>Chris
>
>On 11/3/06, Drew Browning <drew at uic.edu> wrote:
>>List,
>>
>>I'm trying to use PD/GEM on my Shuttle, AMD Athlon 64 machine with WinXP
>>and a ATI Radeon X800 graphics card. GEM seems to work fine except for
>>pix_video. When I load a pix_video patch, like 00.SimpleVideo.pd from the
>>examples, I get the following:
>>
>>MAN::resetState entered
>>error: pix_video: could not initialise COM.
>>MAN::resetState entered
>>
>>When I send the message "device 0" the pix_video object, I get the following:
>>
>>error: pix_videoDS: COM has not been initialized.
>>
>>Here's what I have done to try to solve the problem:
>>- I've tried different versions of PD/GEM but I still can't use pix_video.
>>I'm currently using Pd version 0.40-1 and GEM version 0.91-cvs.
>>- I've updated my graphics driver to the most recent version.
>>- I've tried both USB web cams and DV cam but both give the same error. The
>>cameras work in other applications.
>>- pix_video works fine on my Pentium machines. I thought it might be an AMD
>>problem but when wrote to the list about this a year ago others replied
>>they had no problem with their AMD Athlon 64 machines.
>>- Per another suggestion I ran services.msc and made sure COM, DCOM and WMI
>>services were started and they are.
>>- I've updated my DirectX to the latest version.
>>
>>I'm hoping there might be someone who can help me find a solution.
>>
>>Drew
>>
>>
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