On Sat, 2016-07-09 at 11:26 +0200, oliver wrote:
me.grimm wrote:
Yeah the error I got with Pd 0.47.1/ Gem 0.93.3 is:
"filmQT: Could not initialize quicktime: error -209"
I DID install Quicktime and error went away but again, Quicktime on Windows is now depreciated so in the future....?
yes, it's encouraged to drop it from windows machines for security reasons.
my workaround for this:
since all of my MAX/PD/VVVV videos are encoded with the "photojpeg" or "mjpeg" codec (as these proved to be having the best size/performance ratio and they work best when frames are directly called - i.e. a video has to be synched with sound) you can easily just switch the container by renaming a file "xxx.mov" to "xxx.avi"
Changing the extension does _not_ switch the container format, although it might change the icon and it probably starts a different program when double-clicking, since on Windows files are associated to programs by their extension. Still, different containers means media streams are organized in a different way within the file. Some tools like 'exiftool' (also available for Windows) will tell you exactly what kind of media file you have.
Roman