>Plus on the subject of Windoze ME.. Have you had any problems with
>using quicktime movies in player objects & did you find a way around
>it?
>
>I have a project which shows a qt 4 movie with sorenson compressed
>video & mp3 compressed audio that just won't work with metacard on
>ME.. works fine on 98, 2000 & Mac, it even works in the normal qt
>player but not from a normal CDROM based metacard app.
I had a similar problem with one of my clients using both Windows ME and 2000.
Graphics card device drivers are notoriously bad and variable. On
two Win 98SE laptops (one with an ATI RAGE Mobility-P AGP graphics
chipset and the other with an ATI RAGE LT Pro PCI chipset), I can
leave acceleration on full and QT set to it's full speed default as
well. On a Windows NT 4 SP5 system, likewise, there were no
problems. On another Win 98SE laptop, I had to switch both the
graphics card and QT to lowest speed, most compatible mode to get it
to work. The key difference in all cases is the model of graphics
card and version of device driver software for that card. There are
similar horror stories relating to printers and their device drivers!
If you select the "Video Settings" in the QuickTime control panel and
switch to "Safe Mode (GDI Only)", this might well sort out the
problem. If this doesn't work, you could try Advanced settings for
your display properties. This varies considerably between the
different graphics cards, but almost always has a "Performance" tab.
Here you can try different levels of acceleration, though it might
need "None" to work fully.
Cheers
Peter
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