On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Scott Rossi wrote:
> >> I have experience playing video on SC and MC, in MacOS and Linux. Now I'd
> >like
> >> to take some baby steps into Windows, but my institution doesn't have any
> >> documentation on mciString commands. Just to get me started, can someone
> >tell
> >> me mciString equivalent of
> >>
> >> on mouseUp
> >> play videoClip thisClip at 200,200
> >> end mouseUp
> >>
> >> If this works I'll try pause and resume. Thanks in advance for your help.
> >
> >Anybody?
>
> You could probably just poke your nose around the Web, like many of us
> wind up doing to find answers to our unnanswerable questions.
Or you could look on the MetaCard WWW site, or even choose
"tools.metacard.com" from the MetaCard menu bar and click on the "MCI
Demo..." button.
> I seem to
> recall some discussion a while back about using MCI to control QuickTime,
> but that QT wasn't MCI compliant or something. I could be wrong.
Nope, you're right: MCI is a 16-bit subsystem in Windows 95 and 98,
and QuickTime 3 and 4 aren't available for it. So unless you're using
NT (which has a 32-bit MCI layer that does work with QT 3), you'll
have to use QuickTime 2.X. Unfortunately, that isn't available
anymore ;-)
Bottom line: unless your project is due very soon (which it obviously
isn't if you're just starting on it now), you're better off not
wasting any time fooling with the obsolete MCI subsystem and instead
plan on using the new player object in 2.3.
Regards,
Scott
> Regards,
> __________________________________________________________________
> Scott Rossi Tactile Media - Multimedia & Design
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Web: www.tactilemedia.com
>
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