Hi Gang, This is borderline off topic but I'm stuck so please bare with me.
Hybrid CD-ROM project with Quicktime 5 movies using the Sorenson 3 codec with Quicktime 5, Director 8.5 on a Dell Windows NT are misbehaving. The audio plays but the video doesn't. I have some lingo that monitors the movietime for the user and it movies along nicely, but the video itself just stays on the first frame of the quicktime. Now if I invoke an alert box or alt-tab to switch windows and come back to the projector then the stage gets refreshed and the video starts playing. If So I add code to force this refresh then it plays but I now get a big video frame flash with the quicktime sprite. ( ie, the stagecolor = the stagecolor) Now I typically have a Quicktime paused on the stage and wait 1 or 2 seconds then start playing with sprite(x).movierate = 1 etc. This usually eliminates any startup stutter. Initially my client gave me these videos with audio on the first frame which was naturally causing some audio stuttering. So I cut and paste the first frame into the beginning of the quicktime to allow some "quiet" time for the video to preload etc. I then did an "export movie" etc. with "QuickTime Player". This may or may not have anything to do with it since my client mentioned some other QT's with no audio also fail to start playing properly. TIA, Randy Please email me directly if you don't think this is good fodder for the rest of Lingo-L [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!]
