> although back when I first wrote the code and thus harvested the sound > files I didn't know MP3s even existed...
How long ago that has been? ;-) > strange. But I converted them to PCM proper WAV files, and suddenly > both Win98 machines play them just fine. > > I'm still curious as to why Media Player would play them on the first > machine yet PlaySound() would not - maybe it works at a slightly > higher level than the WinMM library. But anyway, result!!! Hmmm, Media Player uses codecs to play a lot of formats. Are codecs handled at WinMM layer? I personally doubt it (haven't checked anything about it though. ------------- Ehsan Akhgari Farda Technology (http://www.farda-tech.com/) List Owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ WWW: http://www.beginthread.com/Ehsan ] Light without eyes illuminates nothing. _______________________________________________ msvc mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] See http://beginthread.com/mailman/listinfo/msvc_beginthread.com for subscription changes, and list archive.
