i just checked out the pixvid binaries and the documentation confirms what you just said:

Usage:

Load after GEM when using PD.  

For example, this is my PD invocation:
c:\pd\bin\pd -path c:\pd\gem-0.87;c:\pd\jade -lib Gem;pix_video_ds

where pix_video_ds has been installed into
c:\pd\jade\ on my system.


> On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 09:58  PM, Jeffrey Hildebrand wrote:
> 
> >
> > still no go. this is probably my 4th time trying to get this to work in
> > windows but it just doesn't want to. the machine i'm on could have
> > something to do with it because it's all locked up and i don't have 
> > admin
> > priviledges.
> >
> > what i learned today is that i don't need to compile on windows 
> > because i
> > can just use the Gem.dll. the problem with that is you have to install 
> > the
> > GEM sources anyway because that's where the tutorials and demo patches 
> > are
> > right? other than that i can't link to the Gem.dll with any of these
> > methods i've tried from the Run and Command programs (and yes i put the
> > Gem.dll in the bin directory)
> >
> > \pdforwindows\bin\pd.exe -lib /pdforwindows/bin/Gem
> > I:\pdforwindows\bin\pd.exe -lib I:/pdforwindows/bin/Gem
> 
> uh,
> 
> ...just as a shot in the dark try:
> 
> > \pdforwindows\bin\pd.exe -lib \pdforwindows\bin\Gem
> 
> ...seems like you should always use the backwards slash on windoze 
> (insert obvious joke here)
> 
> l8r,
> jamie
>