VS: newbie: how play sounds in RR

[Ken Norris (dialup)]

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Hi folks,

May I jump into this one?
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> Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:10:51 +0100
> Subject: Re: VS: newbie: how play sounds in RR
> From: Klaus Major <klausimausi at mac.com>
> 
>>> ..
>>> This will NOT work, if you are using QuickTime in your stack.
>>> I found out that you have to choose: QT or "play ac..."
>> 
>> yhmm if I sahe that editor in the future I have to assume that
>> everyone dosen't have QT installed.
> 
> Although QuickTime is a if not THE leading multimedia extension, it is
> still not
> so common on windows as it should be...
> 
> You can assure to NOT use QT at all (installed or not) by adding this
> line in your
> "preopenstack"-handler:
> 
> ...
> set the dontuseqt to true
> ...
> 
>>> You can also use a player-object to play sounds, even without QT.
>>> Then you might have to place that player in some backgroud that
>>> is available on every card.
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Well then, is there a way to check for a default player, then create a
subroutine path to open and play a file with it? Seems easiest with QT, but
I don't know Windows very well.

This kind of thing is important to me, too.

TIA,
Ken N.
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