Hi Brad,

Yup - DV and most newer codecs are accessed using DirectShow rather than VFW which is what the [pix_film] object uses. There's nothing that you can do to enable DS codecs: GEM itself needs to use the DirectShow API to load and access the films.

I do have a DirectShow based film playing object in development which I'm hoping to roll into GEM CVS and therefore GEM sometime soon. Unfortunately I've been busy with other things lately and haven't been able to spend much time on GEM development.

I'll try to finish it off and do another CVS build soon.

Daniel

----- Original Message ----- From: "brad" bekligg@club-internet.fr To: "pd list" pd-list@iem.kug.ac.at Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 9:38 PM Subject: [PD] PD [GEM] DV codec and winXP

Hi all/

I've been using the cinepak codec to compress videos for use in GEM without problem. I tried using WINDV codec and GEM tells me that it cannot find the compressor. I'm sure that it is installed since I created the video with Premiere on the same system. I brought up this query in a video newsgroup with the following

response...

<< I believe that this depends on the fact that the Microsoft DV codec is a "DShow codec" (DIRECTSHOW) whereas the other ones are conventional VfW codecs. DShow codecs are not registered the same way in the registry as VfW ones either.>> Can anyone help me with this one?

/bradKLIGERMAN

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