Hi Kurt, > Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 11:28:06 -0400 > Subject: QT Player only? > From: Kurt Kaufman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> displayed without the flexibility of the player (the controller for > starting, pausing, playing only a selection, etc.), but in that case > does not rely upon the presence of QuickTime or Windows Media Player, > etc. ---------- Hold on, now. I posted a quote from the docs: "When an audio clip or video clip is playing, a temporary player is created for it." ...I'm surmising that means the VC/AC commands use QT unless don'tUseQT is true, in which case it uses the default player on the system. So then, it MUST rely on the presence of QT or MP. How about it Rev staff? Is that true, or does Rev have its own realtime players or VC's and AC's? ----------snip > I think that Runtime Revolution's authors are trying to encourage > developers to use the player objects rather than importing media. You > certainly can display a much greater variety of file formats using the > player object. ----------- Well, RR is still primarily a RAD tool. Consequently, I don't believe the use of VC's or AC's is being discouraged at all, e.g., once again, it's just a discretional matter of how they will be used. If I want to use clips for splash openers, stackwide button sounds, SFX, etc., things that are small and unlikely to need updating, then I think importing them is more viable in many cases, than pointing to files, because of execution speed and that they don't use much memory. They're just clips, as the name implies. If you are using QT, you should be able to import and play any filetypes that the current onboard version of QT recognizes. OTOH, IMO, if you have movies or sounds which 1) take too much RAM to be practical to be 'embedded', and/or 2) you will need to update, then the file method is the way to go. All the best, Ken N. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
