I have been using GEM on windows for a while now and had crash problems a while back but i have settled on the follwing process and i havent had any crashes lately.

1. using GEM 0.87 (no qt!)
2. encode video to avi using virtualdub with cinepack (400x300) (not a great codec, i know) - because i want position control of the video i encode the video with a keyframe every 1 frame.
3. dimensions of the video should match standard aspect ratio. and be a multiple of 4.

I found that the larger the dimensions the more likely a crash (not sure if its bit rate related or something else) but i am using pix_delay in my patch and found if i took that out vids that did crash - didnt crash after removing the pix-delay. And using video with different codecs seemd to make more crashes so i encoded all my video to one codec (cinepack).

rm.

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Message: 2 Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 17:57:37 -0600 From: "chris clepper" cgc@humboldtblvd.com Subject: Re: [PD] stability of Gem for video playing To: PD-list@iem.at Message-ID: a8e0bc960603071557u1d1e0280nfe2b42a4c18179e3@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

On 3/7/06, David Powers cyborgk@nocturnalnoize.com wrote:

Yes, just to be clear, I think on MacOSX and Linux performance may be much more stable. From what I know the PC version has some problems, particularly with video playing.

Yes, the Windows version 0.90 does crash when loading Quicktime clips. I have done some work to fix this and hopefully the results will be available soon.

The other recommendations for Photo-Jpeg on OSX are good ones.

cgc