QT Player only?

[Ken Norris]

Hi Kurt,

> Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 11:28:06 -0400
> Subject: QT Player only?
> From: Kurt Kaufman <kkaufman at snet.net>

> 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. 
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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?
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> 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.
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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.