At 06:45 30/07/2001, Robert Wingate wrote:
> > WMP is just an application that uses the DirectShow technology,
> > much like Tabuleiro's DirectMediaXtra
>
>Thanks Mark for calling me on this one. I don't mean to evangelize WMP
>or anything. There are good alternatives, and my experience with
>Tabuleiro Xtras or support has never been anything less than excellent.
>
>And I'm interested to learn that DirectMediaXtra & StreamingMediaXtra
>use DirectShow. Having done a couple of DirectShow-based console apps
>that I call from Director, I now wonder if I should've tried to do them
>as Xtras instead. Great -- now I'll be thinking about this all week!
Since you've already created the apps, you may not gain from it. I might
throw in a teaser, though. DirectMediaXtra also allows you to add cuePoints
to its cast members, even for file formats that don't support cuePoints.
(Note that it doesn't add them to the files, just the cast members).
There are some other cool features with the Xtra, too, such as panning the
audio and adjusting the cpuBoost for playback. It also does true full
screen playback (not a stretched sprite). I wonder why the QT3 Asset Xtra
still doesn't do full screen?
I'm not sure if those features are included with the StreamingMediaXtra,
but they might be.
--
Mark A. Boyd
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