Hi all, just a quick note on a crash I've been experiencing as I've been trying to get GEM and some avi playing patches working on my new install of PD.

After using a precompiled gem.dll (ver: 0.87), I compiled my own and ran it through the debugger to try and track down the problem. Looks like inside pix_filmNT::realOpen(), AVIStreamOpenFromFile() is returning something non-NULL, but then AVIStreamGetFrameOpen() returns NULL. This is then stored into m_getFrame, which then eventually causes a crash down the line inside the render.

I'm guessing from MSDN that the NULL return value is because it can't find a codec for the file? This I'm confused about because both VirtualDub and Media Player are quite happy with the multiple avi's I've tested it with.

Anyway, if anyone could shed any light on what's happening, I'd be very grateful. For the moment I've added the following code after line 82 in pix_filmNT.cpp, after m_getFrame = AVIStreamGetFrameOpen(..., and it at least stops the crash from being fatal:

if (m_getFrame==NULL) { error("GEM: pix_film: Couldn't decompress file: %s", filename); return; }

I'm running on Win2K, SP2, GeForce3 Ti 200, Athlon 1700+, 512Mb. Let me know if you need any more details.

Thanks, Pete