Windows: Natively playable media

[Jeffrey Reynolds]

This is not true for wav files. rev and mc will not play a wav file in 
a player w/o qt installed. Doc eludes to the possibility this should 
work, but does not work with a player (will with mci strings, but not a 
simple player call). I didn't try mp3 files, though, when i was trying 
to get a non qt windows app play a sound file (had lots of them so 
couldn't embed them all).

the big tip off on windows to see if mc has loaded and is using qt to 
play a media file is that the controller bar will be show (if that prop 
is true). even if you turn off qt in mc or rev, if you fiddle a while 
with players it will sometime get loaded and things start working. you 
get very happy and think you have the solution, but alas, its just that 
qt got reloaded and rev or mc is using it... only way to safely check 
this out is to work on a machine you have stripped qt from (luckly it 
does remove and reinstall pretty nicely on xp at least).

best of luck. i wish there was a way to do at least sounds easily using 
the player on windows, some apps i do dont use video, but need some 
sound files played and i cant embed them and i requiring windows users 
to load qt is not possible with some clients (their it controls all 
installations and doesnt like anything like apple software on a windows 
machine -- yes they think apples are nothing but hand held calculators) 
and others just dont want to trouble with it...

cheers,

jeff

Jeffrey Reynolds
6620 Michaels Dr
Bethesda, MD  20817
301.469.8562
jeff at siphonophore.com

On Nov 14, 2004, at 12:00 PM, use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com 
wrote:

>> I just assumed  because it played the audio.mp3 file in a player that 
>> QT must
>> have been installed.
>
> Not a good assumption.  You must specifically query the qtVersion to 
> make
> sure QT is loaded.
>
> Also, Rev is indeed capable of playing media on Windows without QT 
> being
> present, however, as you noticed, the capabilities of the player 
> object will
> be much more limited compared to a player using QT.