leo {depart} wrote:
hello!
i've just tried gem-bin0.888pre on winxp (with pd 0.36-0). unfortunately i have problems with pix_film and my movie files now (worked fine with gem0.87+cvs) whenever i try to load one of my movies (avi, indeo4/5.1, 512x512px) my pd crashes. when i turn rendering off, before i load the movie file, i get a a decent "pix_filmNEW: loaded... " message. if i turn rendering on then, it crashes.
- the homer.avi works fine !!, so i guess it could be a codec issue (
has the indeo support been cut? )
- further it won't accept my relative paths ("unable to find...") that i
used so far in my patches...
looks like you are using an older pre-release of gem. try the one that can be found at http://gem.iem.at/download/gem-bin-0.888pre1.zip
this should fix the relative-paths issue. about codecs: of course, the decoding is not done in Gem itself but by libraries provided by the system. this does mean, that there is no way to "drop support" for a specific codec (this is wrong too: of course a check could be done whether a file is encoded with a special codec and refuse to decode; but this would be plain malignity)
the issue seems to be more about using quicktime4windows. i haven't been able to get it really stable when decoding AVI-files (MOVs work fine however) in prior versions (i guess like the one you are using) quicktime4win has been tried prior to the "normal" (microsoft) avi-decoding. this lead to crashes when trying to load "another" movie (say: you loaded a quicktime and *then* wanted to load an avi --> crash) at least on my machine. i have changed the library order, so that microsoft's avi-loader will give a first try (and fail on quicktimes), and then quicktime will have a look. however, loading MPEGs crashes fine with me.
mfg.a.sdr IOhannes