One reason this error dialog comes up on Windows is if the qt movie 
was originally a mac file and was not saved as Self Contained before 
it was brought to Windows.

hth

-Buzz

At 1:48 PM +0100 10/27/01, Ian Johnson wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have 2 qt files, 1 with a video track, 1 with an audio track (with
>cuepoints).
>
>The video and audio tracks kick off together, but the video finishes long
>before the audio as I want to sync some other sprite-based imagery with the
>audio (based on the cues).
>
>There's a script listening for mostRecentCuepoint in the audio that alters
>the sprite on stage.
>
>This works fine on Mac and fine on most PCs.
>
>However, on some PCs the cuepoint event is not being listened to. This must
>have something to do with the format of the audio as I've tried an audio
>only qt .mov and .aif.
>
>I have also tried opening these suspect files in QuickTime PC (5.0.1 I
>think) and on the suspect PCs I get a message saying 'Quicktime could not
>recognise this file' - strange as it is only a qt audio track.
>
>However, the .aif files open up ok in QuickTime and I can see the cuepoints
>in the qt interface. Changing the externally attached qt audio .mov member
>to a plain old .aif member results in everything working fine on a few more
>of these PCs where previously they didn't.
>
>Still... some incompatabilities exist with remaining PCs.
>
>Has anyone experienced this type of problem? I thought it might have been
>the compression settings (previously IMA and uLaw) but even an uncompressed
>audio files displays the same inconsistencies between various PCs.
>
>I have also re-installed QT. My next thoughts are, 'would reverting to an
>older v of quicktime help?'
>
>
>
>Regards,
>
>Ian
>
>
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