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 :
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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!
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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.