[PlanetCCRMA] gem film broken

[Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano]

> I'm new to linux, pd and gem, and planet ccrma was suggested as the
> easiest way to git into all of them simltaneuously - and it has been
> apart from playing video in Gem.
> 
> I didn have this working once (under Fedora1), then something went wrong
> and I re-installed linux from scratch and now it wont work.  can anyone
> help ?  

What did you install? FC1 again?

> (note: it also responds basically the same with the demo files included
> with Gem)
>
> feedback from pd/gem when trying to load a quicktime mpeg4 file:
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> pix_film:: quicktime support
> pix_film:: libmpeg3 support
> pix_film:: libaviplay support
> error: GEM: translateXYZ: needs 0 or 3 arguments
> fiddle version 1.1 TEST4
> error: fiddle~: npoints out of range; using 1024
> bonk version 1.1 TEST 3
> invalid command name "VEEJAY.m.windows"
> opening /home/jbarrows/gem/manga.mov with format 1908
> GEM: pix_film: unsupported CODEC 'mp4v'!
> quicktime_delete_vcodec_stub called
> MPEG3: unsupported!

apparently it now tries avifile...

> <init> : Avifile RELEASE-0.7.37-040520-22:29-gcc version 3.3.3 20040412
> (Red Hat  Linux 3.3.3-7)
> <init> : Available CPU flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic
> mtrr pge m ca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
> <init> : 1830.12 MHz AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+ processor detected
> <reader> : checking: /home/jbarrows/gem/manga.mov
> <ASF reader> : Could not find ASF header chunk in file
> <ASX reader> : Not a redirector!
> <ASF network reader> : Not an URL
> <FF reader> : Format  QuickTime/MPEG4 format   streams:1
> <FF reader> : S: 0 id:a  bitrate:800000 (8000000) samprate:0  chn:0
> framerate:2 5  wxh 256x256  1.000000
> <FF stream> : Numerator: 1  Denumerator: 90000   FrameRate: 25.00 (len: 409585)
> <reader> : Initialized video stream (chunk tblsz: 0, fmtsz: 72)
> FRATE 0 pts:0 1  25  t:0
> <LDT keeper> : Installed fs segment: 0xf6c6a000
> <codec keeper> : Found 9 plugins (/usr/lib/avifile0.7,A:39,V:82)
> <codec keeper> : CreateVideoDecoder(): Unknown codec 0x5634504d = "MP4V"

so it does not find the codec for mpeg4, which I cannot distribute. 

It's been a while so my memory is sort of fuzzy but I think you need to
download and install the codecs for avifile that deal with various
formats. Check the avifile.sf.net site...

-- Fernando

> AVIPLAY: unsupported!
> pd_gui: pd process exited
> Segmentation fault
> [root@localhost src]#