Try this: preload the movie offscreen ahead of time & pausedAtStart sprite().loc = point(-1000, -1000) -- or something like that
then on the frame you want, move it in & start it. hth -Buzz At 2:50 PM -0400 10/18/01, Randy Smith wrote: >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!] [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!]
