'film' plugin does not load

[sp-photopic]

'film' plugin does not load

[umlaeute]

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]

Thank you for your quick response!

I will try that :)