Pd and Linux noob here.

I'm trying to play video from file with no luck. Using the pix_film and/or pix_movie Help windows I can load a video from file. It's length/height/width will load in the patch and GEM creates an appropriately sized window. But the video won't play; just a blank, black screen. The Help window leads me to another window discussing differences in OSs and suggests I download the libaviplay for Linux to resolve playback issues. But I can't find this library anywhere.

How does one go about playing video in PureData with Linux/Ubuntu?

for me it helped a lot to install vlc, as ubuntu now recognizes most of the avi codecs i used on winXP.