DirectShow comes with almost no codecs so you need to install some.  Try the ffmpeg FFDShow package which will cover all of the MPEG formats, DV, JPEGs and much more.<br><br>Quicktime will play lots of codecs on Windows too, but the performance is not as good as DirectShow.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/6/15 Hannes Breitschädel <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:hannes-b@gmx.at">hannes-b@gmx.at</a>&gt;</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi List!<br>
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As far as I know the gem-object &quot;pix_movie&quot; uses either directshow or quicktime to playback films.<br>
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 I tried to encode the film to various formats and then open it with pix_movie. This is was a very time consuming and frustrating job. finally on my xp system only motion jpeg works. (very large video-files :-( )<br>
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Is there an easy way to find out which formats pix_movie is able to play back?<br>
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can you sort of &quot;ask&quot; pix_move or quicktime and direct show what they support?<br>
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btw:<br>
i recommend the open source software &quot;mpeg_streamclip &quot;<br>
features:<br>
- free<br>
- convert videos to various formats<br>
- rip a dvd<br>
- extract soundtrack from dvd<br>
- winxp and osx<br>
<br>
all the best,<br>
hannes<br>
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