> 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 very
tricky, cause MPEG 2 playing capability is non standard yet (it will change
soon in the Windows world with Windows XP) . I used myself the excellent
Direct Media Xtra to do so thru Director.
You must first install a soft MPEG 2 player (ex.: WinDVD), or simply decoder
(ex.: Ligos LSX) on the PC. I had trouble in the past with the access to the
soft decoder drivers via the Director/Directmedia/Media player link. You
could have to play with the system config. files to resolve that.
I faced also a couple of weird, mpeg 2 specific, playback behaviors: the
black screen appearing before the video begin, and a trouble to match .wav
and .mpg files sound levels on some configurations.
This apart, the media control was very stable and reliable with Direct
media.
Bastien
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