On Feb 20, 2004, at 4:49 AM, Achim Wollscheid wrote:

hi list...

Hi Achim!

still fighting with pix-video... (not really successfully... tried with Win 2000 and XP with different video cards on different computers

• the render window just does not want to display a decent picture...

) Is there any info about system requirements (meaning video/TV card and/or Win version?

The first thing that comes to mind is how does your video capture device work in other programs? If other apps don't give a satisfactory picture then it's most likely a driver issue or perhaps even faulty hardware. Otherwise, if only GEM is giving poor results then pix_video is either using the video API incorrectly or just using the wrong one to begin with. Can you post a screenshot of the video you are getting right now and also the patch?

In my limited Windows video capture experience, I found that XP has the most drivers available now for consumer level cards. Which device are you using? Most boards actually use one of a few available chips to do the digitizing and the drivers for the common ones are definitely out there for XP.

The video device driver also has to link into a Windows API, and the current CVS version of GEM has a Microsoft DirectShow compatible pix_video which should support a wide range of devices. Here's a build that should have this object included:

http://gem.iem.at/download/gem-bin-0.888pre1.zip

Also - which pd version is recommended?

0.37 is what most everyone is using now, and it works pretty well with GEM.

Any help/support/comment is much appreciated...

Sure, anytime.

Chris

Cheers Achim