RE: digi vid problem

> I had a number of mpgs I wanted to import into director on the pc side of > a crossplatform cd-rom. Use the excellent Direct media Xtra wich help to control and play any kind of video without hassle. The other solution is to convert your mpg to MS mpeg4 avi files. Bastien Bouchard L

RE: how to change video source while playing?

I found much less troublessome to initiate the video member source before playing the video sprite. I got many crashes when attempting to switch a video actually playing. Try to just exit the frame, switch the file and return to the frame. Works fast flawlessly for me. Bastien Bouchard Logique

RE: OT Video and Matrox G300 Video Capture Card

> At the same time will it be a fair assumption that there might some third > party software that might get around the problem??? I am not shure... SCMS protection could be hardware implemented. Try by yourself and let us know... Bastien Bouchard Logique multimédia [EMAIL PROTECTED] &

RE: OT Video and Matrox G300 Video Capture Card

an copy > which may cost > the client a bit more, is there another way around it.. No workaround it seems. Maybe that Broadcast VHS decks can "strip" the SCMS code as pro Digital Audio deck can? If not, you will have to "go to the source". Bastien Bouchard Logique multim

RE: Is Media Cleaner to blame?

ou can use just one cast member and switch the media in it -usefull when you play with 300 videos oin a project- ;-) ): member("myvideomember").fileName = the applicationPath & "myvideo"" Bastien Bouchard Logique multimédia [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [To remove yourself

RE: Creating little html table in Director

ot well interpreted by Director. I was so tired of this in a past project that i finally used Explorer to open a Director generated page... Bastien Bouchard Logique multimédia [EMAIL PROTECTED] 99 Turcot Beauport (Qué.) G1B 2L4 (418) 821-0301 2480, Benny-Crescent # 105 Montréal H4B 2R1 (514) 569-

trouble free, not troublesome

> For a real, professionnal, easy, configurable, troublesome > installation tool check http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.htm . My dumb english once more... You should read "trouble free", not "troublesome" in the previous post... Bastien > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to d

RE: baXCopy progress

Here is my personnal hint riki, For a real, professionnal, easy, configurable, troublesome installation tool check http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.htm . Bastien Bouchard Logique multimédia [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to h

RE: URGENT pls.. How to create a good quality VCD...

very good quality, very flexible tool and it is free!... You'l find detailled guides to use it on www.vcdhelp.com. For an easy/cheap/good way to author your vcd, pre-encode your movie into an mpg vcd compliant file with tmpeg and author it with NERO. Bastien Bouchard Logique multimédia [EMAIL

What's a stub?

> What's a stub? Take a look at "how to make a fast start projectors" technical note on Macromedia support Web site. Bastien Bouchard Logique multimédia [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ

RE: Splash Screen and "otto.ini" file

> >The one issue that I'm aware of, that I think hasn't been > mentioned yet in > >this thread. It is that a full screen Windows projector will not show > >the splash screen. Not everywhere. Works perfectly for me with D8 projects on both Win 2k and 98. BTW, i tested the "otto.ini" file funct

RE: RE: 2 Monitor System

> Charlie Fiskeaux > II said the secret: un-maximize the window and stretch it to the second > monitor. Second secret (for everyone on PC): use Win 2K... ;-) Bastien [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messa

RE: Mpg problem.......

> I'm playing an mpeg through DirectMediaXtra in 8.5, where to my joy, it's > running very smoothly, but my problem > comes when the mpg'movie finishes & my on exitFrame me behavior kicks-in - > nothing seems to happen. Malcom, I would try to place the behavior in the lingo channel, one frame af

RE: MPEG 2 xtra ?

> A client of mine wants MPEG 2-movies to play in his mulimedia that i am > curently working on, any ideas what xtra that i should use, (so far i have > only been working with MPEG 1 with the directmedia xtra) Magnus, Be aware first that playing MPEG-2 video file on distributed media is ver

RE: Red Book + Track 1 data problem solved?

> Thanks. I burned a CD with Toast and it put the data on track 1, not after > the audio tracks. The good news is that it didn't make any nasty > noise when > I played the data track in my CD player. Don't trust this! Some players will be silent, but some will still make a terrible noise. It depe

RE: Red Book + Track 1 data problem solved?

> Also, I am wondering if anyone has solved the problem of having > an audio CD > that has Track 1 with data on it. You know, that nasty sound when you play > the data track in your audio CD player. Stephen, That's a mixed mode CD (with data on the first trac and audio Tracks on the following o

RE: freezing MPEG2?

or mpeg. The only cure i know of is simply adding RAM and/or reboot every day... I have done a similar project > ruunning MPEG1 and have had no problems. Probably because: smaller files= smaller memory leak Bastien Bouchard Logique multimedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [To remove yourself from th

RE: How common is 1024 X 768?

be resized at a higher res. than it's "natural" one. You can resize at a lower resolution on modern laptops, but at the cost of a somewhat blurred image. If you insist on full screen, force 800 x 600 resolution on the application (i use personnally Anirez with success), or use... Po

RE: Directmedia Xtras Problem.....

> It works ...but when it navigates to menu.dir ...not run and stop in the > first frame.(It can run by itself) Did you select "animate in background" in your pref? If not, select it. Bastien Bouchard Logique multimédia [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [To remove yourself from this li

off topic: JPEG vs MPEG 4 compression quality

, said to be the future of digital imaging. Bastien Bouchard Logique multimedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTEC

RE: .dat file

If i were you, i would convert it in avi or QT format. There is a couple of excellent freeware utilities do to it : IsoBuster and SmartRipper. My 2 cents, Bastien > dat file is a video CD file format > My question is it need any xtras to import .dat file(Video CD > file format) > into director

RE: deleting the RETURN key in a field member

Speaking of deleting characters in a field. How do you delete the RETURN key? I used: newtext="" member("text field").text = newtext ...but the RETURN key remains there (and the cursor do not return to the first line). Bastien > [To remove yourself from this list, or to chan

RE: director 8.5 serial :-)

BTW, i forgot to mention that i am a happy owner myself of a full Director liscence (an even of an upgrade to D8 one month before releasing of D8.5 :-(), so it is really uneccessary to provide me other serial numbers. Only one is requested to register the soft... Bastien > [To remove yourself f

RE: director 8.5 serial :-)

Jilesh, I'm not sure i have a good understanding of your specific question but...some general tips, this morning: 1- it is not necessary a good idea to post your message specifically to *one* user of the list (it's even worse when he is not a highly skilled Lingo programmer... :-) ) 2- please,

RE: hide all the movies and other files

quot; pref unchecked (default state) won't see them. Bastien Bouchard Logique multimédia [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email

director 8.5 serial :-)

> how i can find director 8.5 serial??? Well..., take a look on the *original* CD sleeve, you should find the serial on the lower right corner... :-) Bastien Bouchard Logique multimédia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to h

RE: FreeBytes LIES - Memory leak and digital video

ccur with digital video or other media types... Bastien Bouchard Logique multimedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTE

how to convert hexa or rgb to decimal number

Simple question: how to find the exact decimal color value (used in forecolor property) matching a RGB or Hexadecimal color value? Bastien Bouchard Logique multimedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo

RE: Re: Quicktime Movie limitations

h bit rate without any problem on PIII 600. The quality/size ratio with MS mpeg4 codec is blazing IMHO, and much, much superior to what i get with the standard Sorenson codec (admitedly, i don't have Media cleaner pro), or with mpg codec. Indeo (version 5) is also to look at in the PC world.

RE: burning hybrid CD partitions

slow when writing in english... :-) ) of CDEverywhere http://www.i2rd.com/cdeverywhere/ , wich is especially destinated to this task and seems to be pretty professionnal and universal. Good luck, keep us informed of your success please. Bastien Bouchard Logique multimédia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [To

RE: linking png file loses alpha

I had better luck in the past when creating 32 bit alpha with Fireworks than with Photoshop. Did you try it?. I have used many png exteranl files without problem (other than heavy weight!...). Bastien Bouchard Logique multimedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [To remove yourself from this list, or

RE: WinNT error message

You have a dot in the name of a folder in the pathname. "C:\TEMP\TempFolder.aac\xtras\BMP Agent.x32" Not a good idea on NT, IMHO. Bastien [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EM

RE: Adding a value to a list if it's not already there

s'nt in the list if valueexist=0 then --add it to the list else nothing Bastien Bouchard Logique multimédia [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi

RE: problem hyperlinkState in hyperlink behavior

I just forgot in my last post an important point about the problem with hyperlinkState. The bug only occur in runtime mode. Never in authoring mode. Bastien Bouchard Logique multimédia [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to h

problem hyperlinkState in hyperlink behavior

viously, the problem comes from a badly tracked mouseUp event, maybe due to the cpu used by the video. What do you think? Any hint for a solution very appreciated. Bastien Bouchard Logique multimédia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://

RE: DivX Xtra and mpeg 4

egally and flawlessly with Media Player (version 6+). Bastien Bouchard Logique multimédia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email

RE: touch screen kiosks

quot;complete" reference for Director i really love: Director 8 & Lingo by Nyquist and Martin (IDG Books). Bastien Bouchard Logique multimedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messa

RE: ARGGGGHHH!......pls help!

> I am making a presentation (PC version) and I would like to check for the > viewers screen resolution. If it is 600X480 then I want to > continue else I > would like to change the settings to 600 X 480 Just use Anirez xtra. Cheap, simple, and works very well for me on Windows Bast

RE: text formatting with Lingo: proprty not found

> > >I get an error: ...property not found: #color Try the old syntaxe: set the forecolor of word x of member("y") to... Bastien Bouchard Logique multimédia [EMAIL PROTECTED] 99 Turcot Beauport (Qué.) G1B 2L4 (418) 821-0301 [To remove yourself from this list, or to change

RE: desactive movie or score scripts by Lingo

nditions in runtime. I wondered if sugh command existed in Lingo. Using "if... then" and a Global variable state as a parameter is probably a good solution, altough i would prefer a trick to do it without modifying scripts, like: "desactivate member x to y of castlib z" Thanks,

RE: re: tables

(xtra "fileIO") -- open user file openFile(myresult, Gmysavingfile, 0) -- write to file writeString(myresult, Ghtml) end and: on openinexplorer open Gmysavingfile with explorerpath end Bastien Bouchard Logique multimédia [EMAIL PROTECTED] 99 Turcot Beauport (Qué.

desactive movie or score scripts by Lingo

Hello all, Is there a simple way to just active or desactive specific movie or score scripts by Lingo? Never found the answer to this simple question in the documentation. Bastien Bouchard Logique multimédia [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest m

RE: foreColor property

").forecolor =myforecolor But not this: member("myfieldmember").word[1].forecolor =myforecolor so, use a text member if you want a set a word font property in particular Bastien Bouchard Logique multimédia [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [To remove yourself fro

RE: Problem in implementing a "go back" button.

> You could maintain a linear list of visited pages, like a browser's > history, and use it as a stack to go back and forward. Look up Lists. Indeed, just add in the list "the marker" each time the user visit a new page. Bastien Bouchard Logique multimedia [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: Problem when try to import *.pic file as cast member.

> Hello list.I am trying to import an image file with the extention .pic > in my cast window for a product i am building. > Director 8 comes up with an error 85 error message. > Does anyone has any idea why i cannot import these files. Open in Quick Time > screen capture > paste in a cast membe

RE: RE:trouble with a movie imported as a cast memeber

> did you check the enable scripts option in the property inspector?? Yup! And all other scripts (other than mouseover) of the menu movie works ok. Bastien [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the l

RE: RE: Power Point

> a Powerpoint show is a stand alone executable, so no program opens it. Not really. A Power Point show has a pps or ppt file extension. You must to distribute Ppview32.exe with a presentation to make sure that the user can actually view it if he don't have Power Point installed. Bastien [To

RE:trouble with a movie imported as a cast memeber

I have some trouble with a movie imported as a cast member and used as a congigurable search menu. It performs correctly for all the features needed (navigation and field searching) except two: - pointer do not change on rollover - user editable fields are no more editable. These works ok when

RE: DIRECTOR 8 with VECTOR

> >If you want ot *trace* images to convert them to Vectors > >you can only do it in Illustrator. > -- > > Not true. You can trace bitmaps to vectors in both Flash and Freehand > too. > Hey! You forgot Coreldraw!... :-) Bastien [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to

RE: Changing linked media

ange the source file on prepare frame. Bastien Bouchard Logique multimedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Li

RE: cuepoints

> if you are on Mac use soundedit and it will be imported with sound and > pictures andŠŠŠcuepoints and you can synchronize your way. > On PC sorry i don't know!! You can do the same with the much better Sound Forge supplied with Director for Win. Bastien > [To remove yourself from this list,

RE: Help!! "Fatal Error - Director will quit now"

> You may have a corrupt cast member. I have no idea how this happens. I second this idea. From my experience, such errors always come from corrupted cast lib and/or cast member. Bastien Bouchard Logique multimedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change

creating sprite and placing images on runtime

? ;-) Bastien Bouchard Logique multimedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and

RE: urgent!!!!!!(problem with projector)

site or i can e-mail it to you if needed. Good luck! Bastien Bouchard Logique multimedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] 99 Turcot Beauport (Que.) G1B 2L4 (418) 821-0301 2190 Maisonneuve Est 2ieme etage Montreal H2K 2E3 (514) 569-1238 > -Message d'origine- > De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto