This was my solution as well, I did the pathnames in the
preparemoviehandler, to go explicitly for the cd, like
member("NameofMovie).patname= NameofCD:FolderWithMovies:Moviename.mov, oddly
enough, this didn't work when I used the moviepath, or @, but it only has to
run from the cd, so this solution is ok for this project. As long as no one
tries to copy the cd content to a different location...
Anyway, it is done now.
Thanks for all the help to all of the list!!!
-Natalia
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Simon Buckingham
Sent: 11. juli 2001 15:55
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: <lingo-l> Re: QuickTime path names on Mac
Hi Natalie,
Picked this thread up in the middle, but rest
assured Director has ALWAYS had problems linking external movies. And I've
been using it since version 1.0! Why for the life of me version 8.0 should
still have problems, well it's not for us mere users to ask is it?
I have had very similar problems recently in
Director 8, burning ISO/Hybrid CD-ROMs with Toast. My solution to the
problem was to explicitly set the fileName's for the respective movie
members in the "on prepareMovie" handler
eg for Mac:
member("myQuickTimeMovie").fileName = "My Mac:My
folder:Movies:myQuickTimeMovie.mov"
for PC:
member("myQuickTimeMovie").fileName = "C:\My
folder\Movies\myQuickTimeMovie.mov"
This adds a little time to starting the movie as it goes through each movie
member setting the file link and you can't put a movie in the first frame as
it doesn't do all this linking before realizing it can't find the link for
the movie in the first frame. This seems to be in contradiction to the fact
that it should be evaluating everything in the "on prepareMovie" handler
before the first frame. It probably sends off a thread to check the links
whilst it carries on with prepareMovie.
Sounds like you've solved it, but we've all had this
problem sometime or another.
Cheers. Simon Buckingham.
* Icecandy Entertainment
* 3717B Amesbury Road
* Los Angeles, CA 90027
* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wed, 11 Jul 2001 07:33:23 +0200
From: "Natalia Tjelum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: <lingo-l> QuickTime path names on Mac
Ok, now I am pretty tired of this problem. I have isolated the problem to be
the actual burning of the CD, I am using Toast, and have tried burning it
both as an ISO, and as Hybrid, non of which worked, but if I burn it as a
Mac volume, it works! Why?
This is what I found on the technotes:
Why won't my Quicktime movies play once they are put to CD? Everything else
works fine...
This reported by a customer. Problem: When a project that works fine from
the hard drive is put to CD-ROM and subsequently run on CD-ROMS other than
the CDR on which it was created, the Quicktime movies in the Director movie
do not play, much like one would expect when running such a project on
Windows without the Quicktime For Windows driver installed. When the project
was subsequently copied from the CD-ROM back to the hard drive of the target
machine and worked fine. Through testing they ultimately determined that it
was related to the burn of the CD, an ISO9660 hybrid CD. When they went to
an HFS format, the project worked fine from the CD-ROM. The burning software
was Toast and the burner used was a Philips CDD2000.
Don't know if anyone has experienced any problems with this, and found a
solution.
- -Natalia
[To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to
http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list,
email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
[To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to
http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list,
email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
