Hello, I have a problem with pix_film, I have two videos that I need to load that gave me always this result:
[pix_film]: loaded file: C:/Users/*/ with 1 frames (1920x1080) at -1.000000 fps
They are both mpeg2, I've tried converting them in .mov and mpeg4 h264, in .avi mjpeg but the result is alsays the same, the frame number isn't recognized. Someone knows what is the best video format and codec to use?

Hi Patcher88

the best format depends on your system and what you want to do with it i guess. I am using most of the time OSX and for me the best format (best performance) is AppleInt. Are you using a windows machine? Try to install Quicktime and than you can choose between the backends (DirectX and Quicktime) with message [open path/to/film 1( or [open path/to/film 0( (or other number (2?))

all this is from 3 year old memory, i hope it helps. one or the other backend, was doing fine on that aspects, introduced some other topics i don't remember, but in the end everything worked. \0/

check maybe also:

http://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/8295/pix-_film-unable-to-open-file-v1-avi/5
http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2010-10/083360.html

best,

Johnny

Sorry if I have not specified my OS, This time I need it on Windows, I've already read these discussions and tried the solution of adding a number at the end of an open message but the result is the same. I've tried with other video and the frames are recognized correctly, with these two videos that I need for a show I've tried a lot of formats but only one frame is recognized...

@Patcher88 said:

with 1 frames (1920x1080) at -1.000000 fps

maybe is a silly question but pd gem says 1 frame when it can't recognize the frame number, and by playing at -1 fps what does it means practically? because I've noticed that if I send a frame message with the right frame rate I get a smoother video playing, why?