Hi all, Suggestions for my question about playing back audio at different speeds included the following:
* iMovie - apparently plays at different speeds, but it doesn't run on 8.6 AFAIK * SoundApp - which I have used since pre-historic times, but it doesn't play back at different speeds * Slider in Movie Player - launch with some key combination - didn't try it, but thanks I ended up with the following solution. I created a HyperCard stack using the QuickTime XCMDs and making buttons to open a file, rewind a movie, play a movie, pause a movie and forward a movie. It also does funky things like set the rewind gap, the play speed, it shows the current time and deals with a time-code offset. I then needed to be able to control it from within Word. Abortive attempts using macros and the MacScript command.. MacScript "tell application ""HyperCard"" to do script ""send mouse up to card button 1""" ..worked but were hideously slow. (If you're counting, that's three scripting languages in one statement.) I then tried making an Applet that you could launch from a mouse button on the track ball we use, but launching every time didn't go much faster and Word was put into the background. Making the Applet stay-open only confused issues because re-launching it sent no more events to the Applet. I even made a RAM disk to put the Applets onto, but that only marginally assisted in speed. I found out that OS8.5 comes with the OSAMenu extension - you put a script into a folder and it becomes a menu item. It even caters for a keyboard equivalent (just at a \ and the key to the end of the name of the script). The solution requires an ancient version of QuickTime and fortunately removing the QT6.x extensions and putting the old ones in their place and a reboot just worked. I also found a copy of FusionRecorder that seemed to not hang when attempting to sample sounds to disk. (I'm still working on a silly gap that it introduces every now and then for no apparrant reason.) After five hours of testing and solid coding - finding stuff on ancient CDs was the hardest part - Fran is now typing away. I've not heard any curses from the office yet, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed. Final thoughts: Only on Macintosh and Linux (et.al.) could I have pulled this off, no way that I could have done this under Windows - yes I'm an expert .BAT author - but as far as I'm concerned it would have never happened otherwise. (No I don't use VBscript and OLE.) Thanks all for the help. Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 from S33:37'33" - E115:07'30" (Dunsborough, WA) -- ()/)/)() ..ASCII for Onno.. |>>? ..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 8888 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
