Does the Windows pd-extended installer not include all externals/extras?

I notice several missing, for example the DFX extras.

Is there a separate package that has these (I wasn't able to find them)?

Trying to get a webcam working with Gem (the 00.SimpleVideo.pd patch for now), and nothing is being rendered. The camera works with other applications, just not with PD/GEM.

The terminal command-line shows the error "v4l: get capabilities: Invalid Argument" whenever the Driver or Device messages are sent to pix_video.

There's no error in PD except for "verbose ( 0):v41: stopped Transfer" when above messages are sent.

GEM appears to have v4l support. Using latest pd-extended and GEM. All libraries were updated.

When the patch first starts PD shows:

[pix_video]: video driver 0: video4linux v4l
[pix_video]: video driver 1: ieee1394 dv4l dv

After searching for solutions this afternoon, I tried specifying pix_video messages "driver 0" "device /dev/video0" "colorspace yuv", and also sent "mode 0" to pix_texture.

I also tried LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4lcompat.so pd but also made no difference.

Ideas?

Trying to play video using pix_film and I'm getting "opening ... ... ... giving up! Unable to open file" errors.

Patch works under Windows, and it works if I change pix_film for pix_image and load a picture.

Error is exactly the same if I manually enter a wrong file name.

The video files play fine with mplayer -- so the codecs are there (and made several versions of the video in all the usual codecs).

Any ideas? I've been through all the forum posts I could find on this topic.

Forgot to mention a couple things:

I don't think it's permission issues (PD/GEM not being able to open /dev/video0) because the permissions look okay and running PD as root doesn't help.

I also thought that perhaps the video is compressed and this has something to do with video not being rendered under PD on my system, but VLC states that it's an uncompressed video stream. But still...

I had already made sure everything was updated. I updated the rest of the libraries, and now get a different error when opening a video:

[pix_video]: could not find a backend for driver....

The path and file names are correct. Plus [openpanel] automatically puts the path in and the same error appears.

No videos work at all with pix_film. Pictures with pix_image works fine.

No messages at all regarding codecs.

Forgot to mention one (likely important) thing: The error occurs upon opening the file with [openpanel]. Behaviour is as if it can't find the file, although the file is there (picked with [openpanel]) and permissions are okay.

Here's the full error message:

GEM: Only using 8 color bits
GEM: Direct Rendering enabled!
GEM: GLEW version 1.5.1
GEM: Start rendering
[pix_film]: opening /home/ccrma/mark/video/testvideo1.mov with format 1908
[pix_film]:  ... 
[pix_film]:  ... 
[pix_film]:  ... 
[pix_film]:  ... 
[pix_film]:  ... 
[pix_film]:  ... 
[pix_film]:  ... 
[pix_film]:  ... 
[pix_film]:  ... giving up!
error: [pix_film]: unable to open file: /home/ccrma/mark/video/testvideo1.mov