On 9/8/00 11:16 am, Peter Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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??
This could be a problem with your machine or specifict setup, script, other
software running, or suchlike. Of course, it could be a bug somewhere. If
you like, you can email me a copy of the stack/movie off-list with an exact
recipy for me to try and I can tell you if it happens here. Might help
track it down...
Regards,
Kevin
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