umlaeute
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5 months ago this basically means that you do not have the (correct) libraries installed for film decoding.
when installing Gem via deken, a README-patch should have opened (unless you somehow disabled that in the deken-preferences) that told you:
LINUX users
please note that while we do provide downloadable pre-compiled binaries via deken, these do not include any dependencies, so are unlikely to run out-of-the box. instead, we suggest installing Gem via your distribution's package manager (which might install just enough dependencies to also get the snapshot to work).
in general, we suggest to compile Gem yourself
Gem apparently shipped with 3 film plugins, that depend on the following libraries (that need to be provided by your system):
libaviplay-0.7.so.0(i haven't used that one in ages, as it dropped out of Debian some time ago; dunno whether it still does anything useful)libgmerlin_avdec.so.1(this is what i typically use for playing video footage on Linux)libmpeg3.so.2(this is a very old library, that used to be able to decode mpeg2 files (iirc); probably not what you are looking for)
sp-photopic
Hi!
I try - and keep failing - to open a .mp4-file (or any other format for that matter) using
[pix_film](also tried to use[pix_movie]).I use: System: Fedora Linux 39 (Workstation) pd: 0.54.1 64 bit (built from the current version on puredata.info) gem: 0.94 (installed via deken)
I start pd via terminal. On startup i get the following:
The complete output can be found here: photopic 10 pd.txt
When I navigate to the Folder ...Pd/externals/Gem/ I can find all the .so-files it is looking for.
The pd-terminal gives me:
If I am not mistaken there should be something like "GEM: film loading plugins: ..."
Obviously, when I try to open a file via
[pix_film]I get:I tried to replace th .so-files with older versions i had on a backup. Still the film-plugin would not load :/
I'v been using pd and gem for more than ten years. Up to this point I always was able to solve problems by searching the forum but this time I seem to hit a brick wall :/ Can you help me with that issue?