i have posted an answer before, but i think it was sent to Jim only
On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Jim Ruxton wrote:
. I get an error saying alea.mpg does not appear to be a supported movie. Same message for anim-1.mov .
Ulrich Kehrer wrote:
on my debian gnu/linux system i made the experience that quicktime movies should be compressed with photo jpeg or motion jpeg-a, other codecs are not yet supported.
this is different here. the problem is, that Gem seems to have been compiled without quicktime/mpeg-support.
so: you have to have one (or more) of the following DEVeloper-packages (headers + libs) installed before running configure and make: libquicktime4linux libmpeg libmpeg3
the configure searches for headers/libs in the standard-paths (likely to be /usr/include resp. /usr/lib). if these files (like quicktime/quicktime.h) cannot be found, Gem will be compiled without film-support for that format. you then get an error like "homer.avi does not appear to be a supported movie".
you can check whether your libraries are detected by looking at configure's output: if there is a line like "checking for quicktime_open in -lquicktime... yes" you will get quicktime-movies loaded (with the limitations pointed out by Ulrich). if it reads "... no" you will have no support.
note also, that mpeg and quicktime-files only work under linux while avi's will solely load under windos.
for quicktimers: you will also need the GLib-library (libglib) to avoid many undefined symbols when loading Gem
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