We are in the midst of our Pd/Gem module for our class and Gem is performing nicely on the students&#39; varied OSes and machines. Our only real problem we have run into is that pix_record seems to be giving us some troubles on the WinXP and Vista machines.<br>
<br>The results are not completely consistent amongst the machines but in general we especially have troubles trying to record especially from webcams. When trying to record from webcams we see messages in the Pd console like:<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">recordQT: movie dimensions changed prev 320x61486 now 320x240 stopping recording<br></div><div style="margin-left: 40px;">error: recordQT : EndMediaEdits failed with error -2008<br></div><br>
Some machines cannot record from the webcam but can record from other sources, such as pix_sig2pix. Some even fail with pix_sig2pix but do succeed in recording from pix_film as is done in the pix_record example patch included with Gem.<br>
<br>Using the attached patch, a typical failure of pix_sig2pix looks like:<br><div style="margin-left: 40px;">recordQT: movie dimensions changed prev 0x0 now 640x480 stopping recording<br>

error: recordQT : EndMediaEdits failed with error -2008<br><br></div>This is with GEM ver 0.91-cvs compiled Apr 12, 2008, part of the latest Pd-extended 0-40.3 release for Windows. All the tested machines have the latest version of Quicktime (v7.6) installed.<br>
<br>Thanks.<br><br>-John<br><br>