please include the pd-list in our conversation too, as they might will know more than just me.

rez wrote:

IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

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please give us a bit more information. for example, what OS are you using ? what library (or at least: which objects) are you using to play back mov-files ? library-version ? what does the console say when you open an AVI-file.

mfg.asdr. IOhannes

OPS! sorry, I'd forget it!

I use Gentoo Linux, kernel 2.6.11 on Dell Inspiron 5100, Pentium IV 2,8 Ghz, 640 RAM, with ATI radeon M7 (7500) 32 Mb.

I've installed, pdp, pidip, gem and gridflow.

I use pdp_qt object to play mov files because I don't know other object wich plays video files. (avi too?)

if you are using pidip, you could try [pdp_ffmpeg] (or [pdp_ffmpegin] or similar, i don't know the exact name)

with pdp/pidip each decoding-library has a separate object.

Are there more objects to play videos?

if using Gem is an option (as you have already installed it), there is one single object [pix_film] which uses (depending on your compilation, all, several or none of) libquicktime, libavifile, libmpeg3 (or libmpeg1) and libffmpeg.

when you create the first [pix_film] object, it should give you some information about what libraries are compiled in.

i guess your gfx-card will not perform too well with Gem though. (this is: Gem rendering, video decoding has _nothing_ to do with that) you could use georg's [pix_2pdp] from yves' gem2pdp-bridge to get image-data from Gem into pdp.

mfg.asdr IOhannes