I'm using player objects to show QuickTime movies in MC 2.3.1 for
both Mac and Win. The movies are about 1Mb in size and include voice
as well as animated cartoons. The movies last about 30-50 secs. I
have QuickTime 4.1 on both Mac and Win.
When I play a QT movie on the Mac and click on the pause button on
the QT controller, it responds practically immediately. However,
when I do the same on the Win machine, there can be a long delay
before it responds. This can be as long as the remainder of the
movie (up to 30 secs)! Also, on the Mac I can single click on other
objects and get an immediate respond. On the Win machine, I have to
click twice?!
The Win machine I'm using is a current P-III 700 laptop with 128Mb
RAM, 18Gb disk running Win 98SE. By comparison, the Mac I'm using is
a G3/300, 128Mb RAM, 16Gb disk running MacOS 8.6. So if anything,
the Win machine should be at least twice as fast as the Mac (and is
for many processor-intensive tasks - comparing the same stacks
running on both platforms).
This sluggishness under Windows is a real problem as users have to
wait an unknown amount of time for a response to the 'pause' and
click twice to move off the player object, where they'd naturally
want to click once.
Any ideas what the problem is and how I can get round it??
Cheers
Peter
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