On Fri, 05 Jan 2001 Jacqueline Landman Gay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If the dontUseQT property is set to true in Windows 95 (haven't tested
> 98 yet) I cannot get a controller to show when playing an aiff file
> inside a player object, regardless of the setting of the showController
> property. Is it possible to have a controller without QuickTime?
No.
> Also, without QuickTime, the width of the player seems to be random. I
> have a line of script that sets the preferred width but it doesn't work.
> The width of the player is fairly random with each instance I create
> (one player showed up as 938 pixels wide. The script asks for 132.) How
> much can be done with player objects if QuickTime is not available?
> Playing audio is about all I can get it to do, and only then if the file
> has an ".aiff" extension. Without the extension, the audio won't load at all.
>
> Can someone provide some guidelines?
You should be able to play AIFF files just using "play <file>". If
you can't or if it comes out as static, it's not an AIFF file but more
likely an AIFC file (compressed, which the engine's built-in audio
routines don't support). Not sure about the random size problem, but
will bug report this. AFAIK, the fall-back AVI stuff has only been
tested with video files, so I guess I wouldn't be too surprised if it
doesn't work all that great with audio files. These do work right
with QT, though, so requiring that is your best option.
Regards,
Scott
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