On 31/7/00 5:10 pm, John J. Theobald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello-
>
> I have been evaluating Metacard 2.3 as a replacement for IconAuthor
> commercial development. So far so good, nice product. I appreciate the
> try it - buy it opportunity. I also appreciate the active mail list.
>
> One area that I am having problems is playing AVI/FLC content within
> cards on UNIX (Solaris) systems. I understand Xanim is required as a
> player, but I'm looking for examples of how to invoke it. Is it such
> that the avi is not actually playing within the card, but rather is
> playing outside the card and it is the developer's responsibility to
> code window position, etc. ? I am able to play a clip through Xanim
> externally, but when I try to specify the file name in a "player"
> object, MetaCard crashes. This is the case with several different
> animations/movies using different codecs.
>
> I presume I just don't understand what is happening. In IconAuthor
> (gone the way of the DODO bird), a player object could be drawn on the
> page (card) and a file name specified. Here, what would appear to be
> similar functionality, is not working as I expect. By the way, these
> are very small files.
>
> Does anyone have any pointers, instructions, examples or suggestions
> they could share? Are there any viable alternatives to Xanim on the UNIX
> platforms I should be looking at for animation/video.
>
> Thanks
If you're doing something wrong, then you would expect to get a Script or
Execution error rather than a crash. As a rule of thumb: once you get a
crash rather than an error, its a bug that needs to be investigated by
MetaCard. You should send a stack with the player and one of your movies,
together with a set of instructions that reliabliy causes the crash, to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - they will take a look at it and tell you what is causing
the problem!
Regards,
Kevin
> John J. Theobald
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