hi,
thanks for your hints, you're right, gem works if you ignore this message which seemed to me as a fatal error, but, no, after that, it "somewhat" works.
I say it "somewhat" works because many examples won't load due to various problems :
- missing venus.obj for many examples
- it doesn't find "pix-movie" object
( must be a compilation problem )
anyway, I've got the answers I wanted on gem's capability regarding video, so, thanks again.
cheers,
Yves Degoyon.
----- Original Message ----- From: "ludwig zeininger" lu@mur.at To: "pd-list" pd-list@iem.kug.ac.at Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 8:59 PM Subject: Re: [PD] [GEM] gem and video ?
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hi yves
that's right, you can capture video. for the gem error: have you tried to continue? i had the same problem with similar setups (rh7/7.1, mesa 3.1/3.4/3.5?, XFree3.3.6/4.0/4.1). it works, though, at least it did for me. only X was pretty hard on the cpu. yes, it seems to be some kind of incompatibility. might be some strange redhat issue.(?) tried for weeks to solve it, to no avail. then i switched to debian... works fine now. sorry, that's the only "advice" i can give. and, unrelated to the gem error, you should get rid of the test version, pd 0.34 is out and rocks.
lu
On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Yves Degoyon wrote:
::hi, :: ::I've guessed from messages on the list that ::gem can handle video capture and video files. ::I'm not too sure, is that right ?? :: ::I wanted to check this out, so I downloaded gem 0.84-6 ::and compiled it on my ::RedHat 7 / Xfree86 4.1.0 / Mesa 3.5 ::system. :: ::Then, I tried to open the gem examples ::but, for any of them, and whatever ::DISPLAY is set to ( localhost:0, 192.168.6.2:0, :0 ), ::I always get the following error ::when I try to create a gem window : :: ::################################################# :: ::Pd version 0.34 TEST 7 :: compiled 17:38:23 Aug 30 2001 ::... ::GEM: Mark Danks ::GEM: ver: 0.84-5 ::GEM: compiled: Sep 6 2001 ::error: GEM: Could not open display ,] ::error: GEM: Error creating const context ::error: GEM: A serious error occured creating const Context ::error: GEM: Do not continue! :: ::################################################# :: ::It's not the common DISPLAY problem, ::( I did the "xhost +" even though I don't have to do it, ::the X server has been started as root ::and I'm running PD as root ), ::so I think there's some incompatibility ::with latest XFree and Mesa. :: ::If gem can handle video, this can be worth digging ... ::If it doesn't, that's just a bug report. :: ::cheers, :: ::Yves. :: :: :: :: ::
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