Dear All,
I think I am not alone in being a bit confused about what exactly one can
and can't do with players in Rev when QT is not installed.
Welcome to the exciting world of "CrossPlatformDevelopment"!!! :-)
Like some other posts recently, I also have to produce an app for windows
machines that do not have access to QT (in my case a dedicated swimming club
machine, fixed with no internet access so QT cannot be installed at all). I
also backup the recent comments about teachers not being willing/able to
install QT in schools - my wife is a teacher and they simply use their
machines as the come and never add things like QT to them.
Sad, but true...
So, I guess my question is - can someone possibly give a summary of what
can be done and what is displayed when using play or player in windows,
without QT.
Well, i wouldn't call this an "official" summary, but just my experiences...
What can (probably! test test test test!!!) be displayed on Win without QT:
Sound: WAV, AIF, AU, MP3
Video:
AVI (even DivX, since AVI, like MOV, is just a container for different codecs etc...)
and MPG
NO midi and NONE of the win streaming formats like WMA etc...
I have successfully used the above mentioned filetypes on win without QT,
just with player-objects...
Still there were some surprises like WAV sounds which could be played in the WMP
as well as QT, no fancy codec, but it just does not want to play in RR...
And one MPG file was reported to always play at 0,0 of the card, big fun...
Although i could not reproduce this, i think thats true... ;-)
See line 1 ;-)
As far as I can tell, there is no progress bar possible - is it possible to make one?
The controller is nice but also a QT only feature, yes...
Check this old stack of mine for a custom controller that will work with/-out QT:
Custom Controller for Players v1.0
You find it on:
http://www.runrev.com/Revolution1/developercentral/ usercontributions.html
waaaaaaay down the page :-)
Sound level seems to be adjustable from system level to zero, but can it be raised?
Sorry, no idea...
Pause buttons,
Easy to create your own...
speaker buttons etc don't seem to appear?
A simple "scalebar" (o to 100) with a simple script:
on scrollbardrag curr_value set the playloudness of player x to curr_value end scrollbardrag
might do...
This could well be down to my usage, but I can't find much in the on-line
docs that help in the differentiation between driving media player and QT.
True...
A one place summary would be really useful I think. (an idea for a revjournal article perhaps?)
Hope someone can help.
I hope this makes things a BIT clearer...
Again, test, test, test, test... And test...!
Best regards Steve King
Regards
Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.major-k.de
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