Given the ubiqitous status of the ipod and itunes, you'd think Apple
would do its best to see that at least Dells, HP's, and Gateways come
with Quicktime installed (maybe they do, but it doesn't seem like
it). Last year my son had to present a multimedia project for his
8th grade science and it was a major pain to get the teacher able to
play the project back. Finally a student downloaded and installed
Quicktime for her.
Mark
On Aug 13, 2007, at 6:10 AM, Trevor DeVore wrote:
On Aug 11, 2007, at 5:00 PM, Jeff Reynolds wrote:
Question is how steady is using mci string commands on all the
various windows oses? It feels like i may be asking for a lot of
trouble here. I makes things soooo much easier to let quicktime do
the work on both platforms (rev does well keeping things pretty
much the same on both sides of the world), but we have problems
with very novice users on pc not being able to figure out how to
install quicktime and also a lot of school systems have software
installation blocks which makes it really hard to use anything
that requires any installation like quicktime on pcs...
Has anyone had luck with doing qt on the mac and mci on the pc for
playing video/audio like this? has it made your life miserable
with a lot of platform specific coding/testing? feels like a world
of hurt to me...
We have an application that started out using QuickTime and MCI (QT
if available and it could open the file on Windows, MCI otherwise).
This worked well until some students started showing up with some
computers that would lock up when using MCI (any MCI, not just
Rev). I think it was Dell widescreen laptops but I don't remember
exactly. Unable to fix the issue with driver updates we ended up
having to create an external that used DirectShow for playback of
files that QT could not open on Windows.
This all happened earlier this year and there may be some new video
drivers that address the issue on those laptops and your target
audience may not even use them. Just something to keep in mind and
test for if you go the MCI route.
--
Trevor DeVore
Blue Mango Learning Systems
www.bluemangolearning.com - www.screensteps.com
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