[PD] [Gem] pix_film error question

[Thomas Mayer]

Thomas O Fredericks wrote:
> oups: pix_ouput = pix_film outputed
> 
> On 6/22/07, Thomas O Fredericks <tof at danslchamp.org> wrote:
>>
>> 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.

According to the help-patch, [pix_film] outputs -1 when dealing with a
stream.

>> On 6/22/07, IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig at iem.at> wrote:
>> >

>> > 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.

Thanks, that did it (when second outlet of [pix_info] is -1, I use that
for banging my playlist-subpatch).

cu Thomas
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