[PD] pd extended build environment

Olivier Heinry olivier at heinry.fr
Thu Apr 17 12:49:20 CEST 2008


Le Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:33:39 +0200,
IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig at iem.at> a écrit :

Thnaks IOhannes for this very clear explanation. I just translated this post into French and added it to the mediawiki, it's worth it.

http://wiki.puredata.info/fr/Quel_codec_utiliser_pour_lire_de_la_vid%C3%A9o%3F

english here : http://wiki.puredata.info/en/Gem_codecs

it's been added to the How-to category : http://wiki.puredata.info/en/Category:How-to

I've also linked to http://puredata.info/dev/APIDoku

++
O.

> Joseph Barrows wrote:
> > hi,
> > i am having trouble with GEM, it only reads .MOV and only some of those 
> > (has to be motion jpeg, but still not all of them open)
> > apparently GEM video support is defined at compile time, so i was 
> > wondering what libraries are used in the sourceforge build environment.
> 
> none, as Gem (and Pd) do not use the sourceforge build farm, but hans 
> has set up his own.
> 
> 
> anyhow, are you trying to build Gem yourself or are you just using 
> pre-packed binaries (e.g. Pd-extended); it's not clear to me though your 
> email suggests the latter.
> 
> anyhow, Gem uses several APIs to decode video; which APIs it can read is 
> defined at compile time as you have corretly guessed.
> 
> which APIs are actually found at compile time can be seen in the output 
> of Gem's configure (which is part of the build-logs to be found on the 
> autobuid website where you downloaded the Pd-extended package)
> 
> the build-logs for gutsy on 2008-04-16 show:
>    video-support
>      use mpeg             : yes
>      use mpeg-3           : yes
>      use QuickTime        : yes
>      use aviplay          : yes
>      use ffmpeg           : no (forced)
> 
> so there are 4 APIs used;
> you should also see something similar when you first instantiate a 
> [pix_film] or [pix_movie] object.
> (e.g. on my machine it says:
>   pix_film:: quicktime support
>   pix_film:: libmpeg3 support
>   pix_film:: libaviplay support
>   pix_film:: FFMPEG support
> which tells me that i use other APIs than the autobuild versions (e.g. i 
> have ffmpeg support))
> 
> 
> "mpeg" and "mpeg-3" are just able to decode mpeg-file, which you don't 
> seem to care about right now.
> the funnier parts are quicktime and aviplay; these APIs both support a 
> number of codecs depending on how they were compiled and/or which codecs 
> they find on your harddisk.
> (i think libquicktime have changed their policy to just include built-in 
> codecs; whereas aviplay uses external codecs)
> 
> so the key thing to do to get more movies to load is to either update 
> these libraries or install (or update) packages that provide codecs.
> 
> on debian, one beloved package used to be "avifile-win32-plugin" from 
> debian-multimedia-org, which would provide a number of non-free 
> (potentially copyright and/or patent protected) codecs as w32-dlls.
> 
> i don't know whether there is this package for ubuntu (or whether you 
> can "just use" the debian-multimedia packages)
> 
> 
> due to the potentially illegal nature of some codec packages available 
> in the net, these packages vanish from time to time.
> 






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