[PD] GEM: forcing the use of Quicktime with pix_flim??

[Matteo Sisti Sette]

IOhannes m zmoelnig escribió:

> and yes, the [open bla.avi 1( should still work (what it does is: first
> try to open the file with the "1"st codec, and if that fails try all
> codecs starting from 0)

Oh great! I tried it with increasing numbers and indeed it does use 
QuickTime with [open bla.avi 2(


For some reason the older version gets QuickTime at position 1 while 
this version has it at position 2.


Now, just out of curiosity, it has a strange behaviour:

- if I use "0" or "1" it says:
"Trying DirectShow"
and succeeds loading it with DirectShow
(I say it because it is certainly not QT [see next] and because I guess 
if it failed it would say "trying <something else>" before succeeding)

So I may think that 0 is DirectShow, or maybe 1

- if I use "2" it does not say "try <anything>" and immediately succeeds 
loading it and it is quick time
(I can tell it because the file has the inglorious "high quality" flag 
unset and I see it at 1/4 resolution, and it only QuickTime uses that 
flag to my knowledge)

Why doesn't it say "Trying QuickTime"? Because it only says "trying" 
when the given one fails and it has to fall back? But then why does it 
say "trying Directshow" when I use 0? Because 0 isn't DirectShow nor is 
1? But then, how is it that it falls back to DirectShow and not QuickTime?


 > eventually i want to get rid of numbers, as this is not very
 > portable (and replace it by a symbolic id, like "QuickTime")

That would be great

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