[PD] [Gem] pix_film error question

[Thomas O Fredericks]

I thought pix_ouput a -1 as the frame count when it did not properly load a
movie (there is something in the doc related to that) but I can not get it
to work.

Tom

On 6/22/07, IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig at iem.at> wrote:
>
> Thomas Mayer wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I sometimes encounter messages "error: [pix_filmNEW]: unable to open
> > file: (filename)" due to some unsupported codices in [pix_file], which
> > is not that big a problem to me. But as I want to play a list of files
> > in a row, is there a specific message on any outlet of [pix_film]
> > associated with this error, similar to streams outputting a length a -1
> > at the second outlet, so that I can bang a new file to load?
> >
>
> hmm, i guess (haven't checked) that when [pix_film] fails to load the
> movie, it will not output anything at the info-output.
> you can use the absence of the message to detect the failure.
>
> and of course you can just detect whether there is an image in the chain
> or not (use [pix_info] for that) and react accordingly.
>
> but i like the first approach more.
>
>
> fgmads.r
> IOhannes
>
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