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.