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.

Quicktime will play lots of codecs on Windows too, but the performance is not as good as DirectShow.

2009/6/15 Hannes Breitschädel hannes-b@gmx.at

Hi List!

As far as I know the gem-object "pix_movie" uses either directshow or quicktime to playback films.

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 :-( )

Is there an easy way to find out which formats pix_movie is able to play back?

can you sort of "ask" pix_move or quicktime and direct show what they support?

btw: i recommend the open source software "mpeg_streamclip " features:

• free
• convert videos to various formats
• rip a dvd
• extract soundtrack from dvd
• winxp and osx

all the best, hannes

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