Back in November, Richard Gaskin http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/WAV-without-QT-td786452.html#a786455 asked :
I just tried playing a WAV file on a Win XP system which doesn't have QuickTime. No go. MP3 played well, but I couldn't get the WAV file to play. ... Anyone know a workaround to get WAVs playing and to play at specific points on Win systems without QT? I am porting over to Rev an application written over 15 years ago in Multimedia Toolbook 4 that uses thousands of external WAV files. To my horror, after a day of testing it appears that Rev lacks even the most rudimentary native Windows audio support. Can anyone please provide a definitive answer? Is it really true that Rev cannot perform the simple playing of a WAV file without using Quicktime? Just as Richard found, I was able to play MP3 files under Windows XP and Windows 7. Unfortunately, while the MP3s sounded fine with XP the quality was awful with Windows 7. Now I am wondering, what is the point of the dontUseQT property? Does it work well with anything? In the same thread someone mentioned the problem might be Rev's reliance on MCI rather than modern media APIs. In terms of audio files like WAV I believe this is incorrect. My ancient Toolbook application written under Win 3.1 (!) uses MCI and still plays WAV files -- selections as well as entire files -- beautifully on all versions of Windows including 7. My conclusion is that the problem with audio lies in Rev's implementation of MCI. Are there any new answers on playing external audio files on Rev without Quicktime? Any help is greatly appreciated. ----- Brian Spencer Spencer Learning http://spencerlearning.com http://spencerlearning.com -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/WAV-without-QT-revisited-tp2283979p2283979.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution