[PD] Recent PD/Gem on Windows

[me.grimm]

thanks for all the info. being so used to unix systems it feel like I am in
some kind of nightmare not even knowing how to use the command prompt....

with:
ffmpeg -i xxx.mov -c:v copy yyy.avi

i get:
[pix_film]: opening C:/Users/megrimm/Desktop/yyy.avi with format 1908
Unable to connect filters -2147220969
[pix_film]: unable to open file: C:/Users/megrimm/Desktop/yyy.avi

>>of course this method would NOT work if the original codec was
"animation" or "mpeg2" etc.

but yes, i was assuming this failed for me because I started with "mpeg",
whatever...

>> perhaps you might need to install "ffdshow" for windows to make it work,

then i DID install ffdshow and YES your ffmpeg transcode output sample did
work so:

codec: motion JPEG video (jpeg)

>>maybe i should do a call for a test-video.

yes. so far with quicktime uninstalled and filmQT.dl disabled i have no
idea what codec to use for use with directshow (without ffdshow) which is
the only backend i have available since Quicktime is not installed on
machines (just my test machine) unless i have IT install ffdshow which i am
assuming they would do unless there is another codec that is useful....

how did extended do it? was there not a quicktime lib in the pd-x package
that gem quicktime plugin was linked to? can that still be done easy now?


m


On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 5:26 PM, IOhannes m zmölnig <zmoelnig at iem.at> wrote:

> On 07/08/2016 05:56 PM, me.grimm wrote:
> > Yeah the error I got with Pd 0.47.1/ Gem 0.93.3 is:
> >
> > "filmQT: Could not initialize quicktime: error -209"
> >
> > I DID install Quicktime and error went away but again, Quicktime on
> Windows
> > is now depreciated so in the future....?
>
> if you don't install QuickTime (in the past, present or future), then
> filmQT will not be able to initialize QuickTime and hence will not be
> able to use QuickTime to decode videos.
> and you will continue to see this error message until you uninstall
> Gem's QuickTime backend (filmQT.dll).
>
> >
> > So far everything seems to work OK. I am getting:
> >
> > "Unable to connect filters -2147220969"
>
> this is the DirectShow backend throwing an error...
>
> >
> > when loading [open ../data/homer.avi} which is the win32 example in
> > [pix_film] example..... In spite of this example DOES seem to work fine.
> >
>
> ...and since DS cannot open the video file, it is passed to the other
> backends and one of them succeeds.
>
> there is a slight problem with homer.avi: it uses a codec that used to
> be installed on every W32 machine since the golden ages (w95 or so).
> for whatever reasons MS decided to drop the codec (iirc somewhen around
> vista), so the file usually cannot be played back with any newer w32
> installation.
> most likely this is the reason for the "connect filters" error; it seems
> that QuickTime (or whatever backend actually opens the file) still has
> support for this codec.
>
> maybe i should do a call for a test-video.
>
>
>
> >>>
> >>> I am assuming Gem 0.93.3 is usable with most recent pd 0.47.1 with
> >>> Quicktime installed?
>
> it's also usable without QuickTime installed.
>
>
> gf,rsad
> IOhannes
>
>
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