thanks for all the info. being so used to unix systems it feel like I am in some kind of nightmare not even knowing how to use the command prompt....
with: ffmpeg -i xxx.mov -c:v copy yyy.avi i get: [pix_film]: opening C:/Users/megrimm/Desktop/yyy.avi with format 1908 Unable to connect filters -2147220969 [pix_film]: unable to open file: C:/Users/megrimm/Desktop/yyy.avi >>of course this method would NOT work if the original codec was "animation" or "mpeg2" etc. but yes, i was assuming this failed for me because I started with "mpeg", whatever... >> perhaps you might need to install "ffdshow" for windows to make it work, then i DID install ffdshow and YES your ffmpeg transcode output sample did work so: codec: motion JPEG video (jpeg) >>maybe i should do a call for a test-video. yes. so far with quicktime uninstalled and filmQT.dl disabled i have no idea what codec to use for use with directshow (without ffdshow) which is the only backend i have available since Quicktime is not installed on machines (just my test machine) unless i have IT install ffdshow which i am assuming they would do unless there is another codec that is useful.... how did extended do it? was there not a quicktime lib in the pd-x package that gem quicktime plugin was linked to? can that still be done easy now? m On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 5:26 PM, IOhannes m zmölnig <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/08/2016 05:56 PM, me.grimm wrote: > > Yeah the error I got with Pd 0.47.1/ Gem 0.93.3 is: > > > > "filmQT: Could not initialize quicktime: error -209" > > > > I DID install Quicktime and error went away but again, Quicktime on > Windows > > is now depreciated so in the future....? > > if you don't install QuickTime (in the past, present or future), then > filmQT will not be able to initialize QuickTime and hence will not be > able to use QuickTime to decode videos. > and you will continue to see this error message until you uninstall > Gem's QuickTime backend (filmQT.dll). > > > > > So far everything seems to work OK. I am getting: > > > > "Unable to connect filters -2147220969" > > this is the DirectShow backend throwing an error... > > > > > when loading [open ../data/homer.avi} which is the win32 example in > > [pix_film] example..... In spite of this example DOES seem to work fine. > > > > ...and since DS cannot open the video file, it is passed to the other > backends and one of them succeeds. > > there is a slight problem with homer.avi: it uses a codec that used to > be installed on every W32 machine since the golden ages (w95 or so). > for whatever reasons MS decided to drop the codec (iirc somewhen around > vista), so the file usually cannot be played back with any newer w32 > installation. > most likely this is the reason for the "connect filters" error; it seems > that QuickTime (or whatever backend actually opens the file) still has > support for this codec. > > maybe i should do a call for a test-video. > > > > >>> > >>> I am assuming Gem 0.93.3 is usable with most recent pd 0.47.1 with > >>> Quicktime installed? > > it's also usable without QuickTime installed. > > > gf,rsad > IOhannes > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list >
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