Re: Does the Player object support AVI and WMV on Windows?

2008-01-10 Thread FlexibleLearning
Recently, Ian Wood wrote: The Player object is a QuickTime player, so setting dontUseQT to false isn't going to do a lot... Scott said: This isn't the case, unless the Rev guys changed things recently. In fact, the docs say: Use the dontUseQT property to test operation of a stack using

Does the Player object support AVI and WMV on Windows?

2008-01-09 Thread FlexibleLearning
Trying to play different video formats using the Player object on Windows. - MPG, MPEG play fine - AVI will play sound track only; the video track is white - WMV results in Could not create movie reference Is the Player object restricted, or do I need to locate codecs? I have tried setting

Re: Does the Player object support AVI and WMV on Windows?

2008-01-09 Thread Jim Sims
On Jan 9, 2008, at 11:53 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trying to play different video formats using the Player object on Windows. - MPG, MPEG play fine - AVI will play sound track only; the video track is white - WMV results in Could not create movie reference Is the Player object

Re: Does the Player object support AVI and WMV on Windows?

2008-01-09 Thread Ian Wood
The Player object is a QuickTime player, so setting dontUseQT to false isn't going to do a lot... That means that a player object can't play WMVs at all unless you are on a Mac with Flip4Mac installed, and support for AVIs is pretty limited depending on the codec used for the AVI. I

Re: Does the Player object support AVI and WMV on Windows?

2008-01-09 Thread Ian Wood
On 9 Jan 2008, at 11:06, Jim Sims wrote: With Rev 2.6.4 I can play WMV files after setting dontuseqt to true. In that case the docs are wrong, because they specifically state that displaying a player object loads QT and overrides dontUseQT. Maybe it's changed since 2.6. Ian

Re: Does the Player object support AVI and WMV on Windows?

2008-01-09 Thread Jim Sims
On Jan 9, 2008, at 12:00 PM, Ian Wood wrote: The Player object is a QuickTime player, so setting dontUseQT to false isn't going to do a lot... That means that a player object can't play WMVs at all unless you are on a Mac with Flip4Mac installed, and support for AVIs is pretty limited

Re: Does the Player object support AVI and WMV on Windows?

2008-01-09 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Ian Wood wrote: The Player object is a QuickTime player, so setting dontUseQT to false isn't going to do a lot... This isn't the case, unless the Rev guys changed things recently. In fact, the docs say: Use the dontUseQT property to test operation of a stack using the built-in MCI