On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 10:39 +0200, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

Kristofer Hagbard wrote:

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Hi

Im trying to play an avi file under GEM 0.90 with the included example but i get this:

pix_film:: quicktime support pix_film:: libmpeg3 support MPEG3: unsupported! error: GEM: pix_film: Unable to open file: test.avi

I open it by sending a [open test.avi( and the avi is in the same folder as the patch.

It works nicely under WinXP (gem 0.91 i think.) on another computer but not on my Ubuntu 7.04 with latest nvidia drivers for GeForce 8800 GTS. My color depth is set to 16 due to a crappy screen.

I'll be very happy for any ideas what could be the problem.

obviously Gem has been compiled with quicktime (libquicktime4linux) and mpeg (libmpeg3) support but without support for avis (libavifile)

if you installed Gem from ubuntu via your packagemanager (aptitute, synaptics,...) file a feature request at ubuntu.

if you compiled it yourself, make sure to install libavifile-0.7-dev, and then re-run configure and make.

mf.dsrsa IOhannes

Thank you,

I solved it by installing the extended with GEM 0.91 from Hans site

I'm also wondering about the colors of the film, it's seem to only use 8-bit colors or some indexed colors (wich is natural on the linux machine) but it looks as just as bad on my windows machine that are running 32-bit colors. (it does not do this with images or webcam input)

Is there a reason why GEM reduces the color depth? Is there an encoding that GEM handles better than others?

best,

.kris