Xanim ghost movie

[Brian J Karimzad]

I have a movie playing in a standalone stack for Solaris. It takes a bit
of time to load, but the user has the option of going the next section at
any time (whether the movie is playing or not).

The next section is in a separate stack file. To go to it I use the
command: 

go to card 1 of stack "data/french.mc" in the window of this stack

Occasionally, but with no apparent regularity, the movie will decide to
start playing on top of the second stack, even though no command there
tells it to. 

This only happens in Solaris, and only when I go to the second stack
before the movie has had a chance to load. I am just using a play
videoclip looping command in the first stack, and send a play stop
videoclip when the user clicks to go to the second stack.

Any leads?

Thanks much.

-Brian


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Movies lagging w/ xanim

[Brian J Karimzad]

I'm designing a kiosk app. that will run on Solaris.

All is fine, except for playing a large (40mb) movie file. There is a
15-50 second lag from when the card opens to when the movie starts
playing. This doesn't happen on Windows or Mac, and, oddly enough, is not
related to the speed of the Ultra stations I'm testing on.

Any options to select w/ xanim or other techniques that may speed things
up?

Thanks.


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