Hello, sorry to create an account just for the purposes of asking for technical help, but I'm new and I'm stuck.

I'm following the video tutorial out at

I've got an similar patch in Pd 0.42.5-extended to the one on the video (attached file if you want to take a look). I did have the bundled version of Gem, but I updated it to 0.93.3 while trying to fix this.

The problem is that whatever video file I try to open, pix_film reports back that there's only 1 frame

I've tried a variety of files from different sources in .avi and .mp4 formats but they all generate the same message, and when I unpack the middle outlet from pix_film I get the correct width and height but only 1 frame.

The PD console says:

[pix_film]: loaded file: C:/[....etc.] with 1 frames ([widthxheight]) at -1.000000 fps

Interestingly, autoplay is absolutely fine, but I don't get any movement at all pushing frame numbers into pix_film's right inlet (end goal is to sync the playback speed with a synth/sequencer controlled with a dual-shock controller)

I thought the compression might be screwing it up, so I've run some of the files through ffmpeg -i to get i-frames only, but this hasn't helped. I've also tried re-encoding with x264.

Any ideas as to what might be going wrong? I hope that I've made some sort of silly mistake and this isn't a tricky environment-related issue.

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/VideoPlayback.pd

Hi Johnny

I am indeed running Windows (64-bit 7 Ultimate SP1)

Just installed Quicktime, and stuck a 1 on the end of my open message and it works.

I'd honestly given up on this one, and have been trying some other approaches lately, but I'm excited to have finally got it going.

Thank you!