should be fine on linux (if you have some mpeg-support compiled in, of course)
but of course this would be very raw (no direct access to chapters,....)
well... this is the result of the direct approach: (gdb) where #0 0x626f2058 in ?? () #1 0xb766b578 in filmFFMPEG::open () from /home/tim/pd/extra/Gem.pd_linux #2 0xb768ffa6 in pix_filmNEW::openMess () from /home/tim/pd/extra/Gem.pd_linux #3 0xb769066d in pix_filmNEW::openMessCallback () from /home/tim/pd/extra/Gem.pd_linux
:-/ ... tim