Joseph Barrows wrote:
thanks IOhannes,
i'm trying to avoid needing to build it myself, 've been using pd/gem for a few years, started with the planet ccrma system, after having broken my linux system several times and having to re-install i decided to try ubuntu and stick with a policy of install stable version (when will pd hit version 1.0?)
i don't think that there are any plans to move to 1.0 ever. (but of course i really don't know; i am not making the version numbers)
use ffmpeg : no (forced)hmm, maybe i should compile it myself then
probably not. ffmpeg support in Gem is not something i would consider stable. (the API is changing so fast...)
"mpeg" and "mpeg-3" are just able to decode mpeg-file, which you don't seem to care about right now.onl;y because i need the number of frames, and pixmovie always seems to return "0" for mpeg files (i have build a video player that fades between clips, and so it needs to know when a clip is about to end)
i see, does it help if you create a table-of-contents first? iirc, there is a tool mpeg3toc which will create TOC from an mpeg-file which can then be fed into [pix_film] to allow frame accurate accessing of mpeg-files (and probably the exact number of frames in the file).
otoh, it seems that this has stopped working some time ago...
probably you should just check.
the funnier parts are quicktime and aviplay; these APIs both support a number of codecs depending on how they were compiled and/or which codecs they find on your harddisk.even funnier is that my linux machine now plays more in PD than it does in VLC, something has gone wrong again ...
hmm, i would rather say that this is cool. watchout, one day Pd/Gem will be the most universal movie-player ever.
gem still causes PD to completely die when given a video file it doesn't like.
which is not fine. i suspect that it is libmpeg1 (if it is really used; check out which APIs are really supported when creating the first [pix_film]) - this library is highly unstable; it's only in the code in case libmpeg3 is missing and you still want to decode mpeg-files.
mfgads IOhannes