Yes; that (QT-compatible) should work fine; but that's not "incompatible". Let's use as an example the mpeg2 decoder that is an optionally purchased add-on (from Apple). It may very well work in your Rev app as long as you name it as what your app expects (myMovie.mov in my example rather than myMovie.mpg). However, as this is not part of the standard "distribution" of QuickTime, it would not work on another system without that extension in place.
Second example: Windows (yuchh!) - You've got to be careful here because virtually no one keeps their QT up to date (and maybe hasn't even installed it in the first place!). I'm distributing QT on my CD; it's free from Apple as long as you submit the requested form. As there doesn't seem to be any app that comes with Windows that will save as a QT movie (basic QT, with or without compression), my advice to my customers is to purchase QT Pro which will permit the exporting of what might be otherwise incompatible media into a QT-native format. I know that, theoretically, if QT Player can import it it should play in Rev but I'm not promising anything of the sort when it comes to my Windows apps. Microsoft likes to take its football and go home whenever anyone comes up with a method to provide "standards-based" computing. Then it comes back with a "new standard" that is anything but!...(unprintable vitriol follows; fill in your own diatribe here...)
Third example: myText.txt renamed as myText.mov (I'm scared to even try it.) That's incompatible media, for sure.
So, depending on the extent to which your app is distributed (in the marketing sense, not the "SETI-at-Home" sense), your best advice to your customers is to stick with the "standard" QT movie (assuming you want to give them the info on how to change the movies displayed at particular points in your app by dropping new, properly-named movies into the 'data' folder).
Frankly, I'm still amazed at how Rev supports this so nicely. (Thank you, Rev team.)
Regards, Barry
On Thursday, Sep 18, 2003, at 23:38 America/Denver, Ken wrote:
the application will automatically use the new media without a complaint (as long as the file format is what the app expects; you can't reference incompatible media simpy be renaming it).---------- Good reminder.
If it's something you're using with QT, won't QT automatically translate for
you (as long as the format is anything QT recognizes)?
TIA, Ken N.
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