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 > > >[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!]
