hi, are there any _good_ compression codecs to produce video files pd can handle? 'cause cinepak is not really satisfactory ...
what OS are you using and what do you mean by 'good'? if good means nice images with little compression artifacts then that suggests a different set of codecs than small file size or fast decompression.
here's a summary of each platform's codec handling:
OSX - anything QuickTime handles can be played with the exception of MPEG-1(which is bad for real-time anyway). a good all around codec is photo-jpeg which despite it's name actually looks great when used for video.
Linux - handles MPEG-1 files and a small selection of QuickTIme codecs which are mainly the uncompressed ones and jpeg codecs like motion-jpeg and photo-jpeg
Windows - i have had terrible luck getting this version of GEM to reliably use codecs on different boxes running the various flavors of windows. for example my win2k box only likes cinepak but a friend's XP box will only play Indeo (3?) codecs. both of these are ancient and look pretty awful. maybe someone could post how to get the various codec installed on a windows system to work in GEM. or better yet write a QT .mov player for windows and be done with it.
cgc
thanks for suggestions...
chris
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