First: Woo Hoo!
Now, the comments:
All of this is on a 128 MB B&W PowerMac G3 400 with OS 8.6 and QuickTime
4.03, MetaCard v 2.3a4, with 16MB of RAM assigned to it. I played a
straightforward QuickTime movie in it, and it worked fine, until I set
the alwaysbuffer property to true. Then the movie turned dead (continuing
to play if it had been), and wouldn't respond until I turned off
alwaysbuffer for it.
I played a basic sprite movie in it, and it performed admirably. It did a
better job of hogging the processor than QuickTime Player does, allowing
the sprite movie to play at a better frame rate. Some would argue that
QuickTime Player is being a better citizen; I didn't put MetaCard in the
background to see if it would back off on CPU usage.
I played a different sprite movie, and saw some artifacts when it played,
mostly at the bottom and around the edges. Not unliveable, but
unfortunate. A sample of the movie can be found at
http://www.inspiredlogic.com/qt/invasion.mov
I even tried resizing the movie; it continued to play as well as before.
This movie was far more challenging than the first; it involves rotating
graphics, tracking the mouse position, playing midi sounds, and finally,
launching a URL at a certain point. All of this worked fine.
Then, in trying out a different movie, I noticed that the dialog to
choose a file for the player to display was showing me all sorts of
different files, including applications. So, feeling dangerous, I chose
an application. MetaCard froze. Got what I deserved, but it would be
good to filter that dialog to appropriate files. :-)
gc
Geoff Canyon
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