Hi,
I use GEM under Windows XP, been using it for almost one year.
I used to use a version of GEM that I found somewhere among CVS snapshots or something, a precompiled binary compiled in 2006 for winNT, because it is the ONLY stable version that I found capable of handling DV-PAL-coded videos without crashing; and at that time (summer 2007), the most recent official release dated back to august 2004.
Recently a few months ago I think I remember a new official release was announced though I can't find it in the list archives. Now yesterday I had a look at http://gem.iem.at/ (isn't it the most official place to look at?), and download the binaries for windows at the top of the page. It says (on that page): "released 2007-07-04". However, the gem.dll file is dated august 2004, and I tried it and this is the output I can see on the PD window:
GEM: Graphics Environment for Multimedia GEM: ver: 0.90 GEM: compiled: Aug 3 2004
And I can assure I am using the version I just downloaded, namely gem-0.90.1-W32-i586-bin-doc.zip
So I'm really confused: it is said to have been released in july 2007 and yet it is still the old binary compiled in 2004???? Is there an error in the packaging? Am I downloading it from an obsolete page?
By the way, it crashes if I load a DV-PAL avi file in a pix_movie. (doen't crash with homer.avi). It does not crash when it loads though, it crashes when I turn on the [gemhead] chain containing the pix_movie with the file already loaded. (very same patch works perfectly with the old 2006 version, which indeed is newer).
Now I will try the 0.91 beta, however I am a bit confused about this supposed 0.90.1 which seems to be indeed 0.90........