Re: how many sound levels in MX?

Mats Leidďż˝ Mon, 31 Mar 2003 19:57:10 -0800

Yep, this is a bit strange. For your convenience and mine, I have uploaded a simple example movie with a "volume slider" with which you can change the soundlevel from within Shockwave/Director. It also reacts to a change of the system sound level. There is a text member on stage too, for printing out the soundLevel value that Director reads.

http://www.digitalakuten.com/kul/soundlevel/volume_slider_orig.html

I would not say this is a particularly good slider, but at least it works for me - hopefully for you too. I gave the slider the unusual range of 0 - 15... Feel free to try it out and to download the director movie if you want to see for yourself that there is no deception in the lingo code... Just a bit of quirky undocumented programming au Mats. If the Quicktime 'audio overdrive' has been there for such a long time, why would it affect Director now when it hasnďż˝t done so before? Or has it?

At 8:23 PM +0200 3/31/03, you wrote:
...
Very weird, but it rings little bells in my head about QuickTime which can
'overdrive' audio to a little more than 200% of original volume.
I believe it's up to 300% - there are two lines indicating where 100% & 200% are.
(You can access this feature in the standard controller by shift clicking on
the volume control - alas this is broken 'on stage', but it works in
Director's QuickTime window or in a web browser).
Maybe MX is hooking up with OSX's standard audio features and getting stuck
somewhere.
certainly sounds odd
In the old days, it was the Mac sound manager, which did not offer
'overdrive', now it's QuickTime. Coincidence?
What old days are you speaking about? - the volume overdrive feature has been in QT since version 1.5 at least ('94).

And QuickTime's sound engine has ='d the Mac Sound Manager since then

the QT controller just adds a bonus feature (except when a QT sprite = 'shows controller')

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