I'm on Windows, and strangely my experience is the exact opposite:

I can ONLY use quicktime movies. AVI movies ALWAYS crash GEM instantly. And yet everyone else seems to have the opposite problem?!!!

~David

On 6/22/06, ingo randolf <ingo@subnet.at> wrote:
i solved the instability by avoiding the quicktime movies.
seems to be some problem with windows, the quicktime sdk and gem?

now i use avi files, xvid-encoded with only i-frames.
works fine now.

greets
io


Am 20.06.2006 um 18:43 schrieb ingo randolf:

> hello.
>
> can somebody give me some hints to make my patch more stable?
>
> my system:
> winXP
> dualcore 3GHz intel
> 1 GB RAM
> gem 0.90.1
>
>
> im using the [pix_film] object to play some movies (quicktime:
> 1024x768 25fps - foto-jpg compression). im using [auto 0] and trigger
> every single frame by a [metro 40] according to the length of the
> movie.
>
> if the movie is loaded and plays the patch is stable, it seems that
> there is some problem when i load a new moviefile. thats the most
> propable situation for a crash.
>
> is this a problem with quicktime?
> can i unload a loaded movie before loading a new file?
> which codec should i use if i use avi? is there difference in
> stability?
>
> thanks for help.
> ~io
>
>
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