Hi Ben,
On Sep 19, 2004, at 13:18:38 ETD, Klaus Major wrote:
mp3 can be played with or without* quicktime in a player object. WMA are not supported right out of the box...
*on Windows
In my trivial test (set the filename of a player to the path to the mp3
file; start the player) this isn't working, with a standalone on a machine
running Windows XPembedded, without QuickTime or Windows Media Player.
"player" objects rely on QuickTime or Windwos Media!!!
Also possibly worth noting, on the XPe machine I can play wav files embedded
in the standalone as an audio clip (but not external wav files through a
player).
I have limited opportunities to investigate on the target platform (and we're extremely tight on space on the boot disk).
Do I need to do something special in the way I build the standalone? Or is
it that on Windows you don't need QuickTime - but only providing you do have
Windows Media?
Yes, exactly!
You need at least ONE multimedia architecture on the target pc when using
"player" objects!
I have tried running the same test on a PC running a
standard installation of XP, from which I'd removed QuickTime (fully, as far
as I can tell) and indeed was able to play an MP3 file, with a gratifying
display glitch where the controller/player should have been.
Controller are a QuickTime ONLY feature! We are not using QuickTIme just for fun ;-)
So what counts as the minimum installation to play MP3 in this way? Or in
fact any external audio file?
I won't sign this ;-, but WindowsMediaPlayer version >= 6.5 should be the least requirement
to play MP3...
(Is there another way to play external audio files without using a player object?)
Only uncompressed AIF (and WAV files, but that does not look to be correct) and
(compressed) AU files can be played by "play ac xyz" without QuickTime/WindowsMedia...
QUOTE:
"(Player) ...that uses QT, which although much slower and more memory intensive can play
many more formats than the default play command which uses low-level sound routines
in Win32 and MacOS which don't support compression.
Posted 9/2/2002 by Scott Raney to the MetaCard List"
Any enlightenment gratefully received,
Hope that helps...
This is just a rule of thumb and will not prevent you to TEST, TEST, TEST, TEST, TEST and TEST...
Since we're talking about WINDOWS, it will NOT "play for sure" ;-)
Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com | Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866
Regards
Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.major-k.de
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