On Sat, 17 Nov 2001 Troy Rollins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Terry Judd wrote:
>
> >>> I can confirm this as well. At first I thought it may be a QuickTime issue,
> >>> now I'm not so sure... Movies that do not have any behavior like this in
> >>> the
> >>> QuickTime player, show exactly what Terry said in Rev 1.1 - no scrubber
> >>> movement, OR copy after copy of the scrubber "ball" across the timeline.
> >>
> >> We know about this: it appears to be a bug in QT 5 and we are waiting for a
> >> workaround (this is documented in the read me).
> >
> > Hmm, no such problems with QT5 'player objects' in either Director or
> > SuperCard as far as I can tell.
>
> I've not seen it occurring in LiveStage Pro, or iShell either (using the
> same video clips)... I'm not sure how long I would "wait" for a workaround,
> I doubt that Apple is doing much to fix a QuickTime problem that only seems
> to appear in Revolution.
You seem to be right: our reports to them have gone unanswered. It
definitely is a QT bug, though, and one that it wouldn't be hard for
other applications to run into if they did the range of things that
MetaCard/Revolution do with it (e.g., playing a movie in a small
section of screen without impacting other objects in the window,
buffering behind other objects, mixing object message handling with
generic QT event handling, etc.). Note that there are several
workarounds, mentioned in the MetaCard README files: you can hide and
show the controller or set alwaysBuffer to true and back to false.
Unfortunately these must be done *after* the player has completely
initialized, which is some time after it first draws to the screen.
You can also fix it by merely opening the volume slider by clicking on
it. Note that the Win32 version of QT also doesn't have this bug.
We haven't given up looking for a workaround for this bug, but it'll
be at least a month before we start doing another round of builds, so
if you need to release something sooner than that, you should plan on
implementing one of the script-level workarounds.
Regards,
Scott
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MetaCard: You know, there's an easier way to do that...
