do you have quicktime installed? I think [pix_record] needs it... On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 7:39 AM, Loic Kessous <[email protected]>wrote:
> I just see that I also have this problem and the 'quick start' doesn't work > for me...also the 'codeclist' message crash pd on my computer. > > Also, I don't know which codec to use, the codec message to send, I tried > to use a filename with .mov to see if it can guess but it doesn't work. > > does any body has a step by step method that works? > > loic > > > On Feb 16, 2009, at 8:52 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: > > John Harrison wrote: >> >>> We are in the midst of our Pd/Gem module for our class and Gem is >>> performing >>> nicely on the students' varied OSes and machines. Our only real problem >>> we >>> have run into is that pix_record seems to be giving us some troubles on >>> the >>> WinXP and Vista machines. >>> The results are not completely consistent amongst the machines but in >>> general we especially have troubles trying to record especially from >>> webcams. When trying to record from webcams we see messages in the Pd >>> console like: >>> recordQT: movie dimensions changed prev 320x61486 now 320x240 stopping >>> recording >>> error: recordQT : EndMediaEdits failed with error -2008 >>> Some machines cannot record from the webcam but can record from other >>> sources, such as pix_sig2pix. Some even fail with pix_sig2pix but do >>> succeed >>> in recording from pix_film as is done in the pix_record example patch >>> included with Gem. >>> Using the attached patch, a typical failure of pix_sig2pix looks like: >>> recordQT: movie dimensions changed prev 0x0 now 640x480 stopping >>> recording >>> error: recordQT : EndMediaEdits failed with error -2008 >>> This is with GEM ver 0.91-cvs compiled Apr 12, 2008, part of the latest >>> Pd-extended 0-40.3 release for Windows. All the tested machines have the >>> latest version of Quicktime (v7.6) installed. >>> >> >> >> a quick start is (iirc), to start the recording only _after_ you started >> rendering. >> that is: [pix_record] needs to have received at least one frame of the >> correct size before it starts recording (else it will immediately stop >> because it thinks the frame-size has changed). >> >> this could be considered a fixeable issue. >> >> fgmadsf >> IOhannes >> _______________________________________________ >> GEM-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/gem-dev >> > > > _______________________________________________ > GEM-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/gem-dev >
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