audio on windows not playing

[Jeffrey Reynolds]

Claudi,

as far as i have been able to tell you are out of luck with playing 
external wav files w/o Quicktime on the PC. I tried 9 ways to tuesday 
to do this a few months back. Documentation in Metacard and Rev both 
allude to being able to do this w/o quicktime, but it just doesnt. I 
was interested to see that Scott suggested trying MP3 format, I didnt 
try that figuring that if it didnt play an Wav format file (much more 
older standard format) it wasnt going to do anything. now i'm heartened 
to try mp3 files on non qt windoz to see if that works. let us know if 
it does!

some warnings about testing with the dontuseqt set to true on the pc. 
first make sure you call it first thing in your preopenstack handler. 
if a player is called/delt with before that qt will be loaded. even 
with qt turned off this way i have had it pop back on while fiddling 
around in a stack trying things. you get that moment of great elation 
that you have fixed the problem, then discover that the contrller bar 
is now active and this indicates that quicktime is back on again... 
(followed by a long sound of a balloon slowly being deflated...). it is 
safest to just deinstall quicktime on the pc you are working on to make 
sure its behaving like a computer w/o qt. lucky the deinstall/reinstall 
of qt has gone flawlessly several times on my xp development system 
(kudos to apple for a hardy windows install/deinstall).

one other little windows audio gotcha (that Jacqueline solved for me, 
thanks again!) is that you can get some strange playback behaviors on 
windows (with qt) if the player being played is hidden. make it visible 
and set its loc to off screen and these go away. this doesn't happen on 
the mac, windows only, but the fix works fine on the mac.

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

On Nov 25, 2004, at 4:44 AM, use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com 
wrote:

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> Hi list
>
> I am in quite a fix. I am trying to get an audio file to play on
> windows.
> I am busy with this already for well about 10 hours to no avail. On my
> mac it's no
> problem at all but on the windows box (windows 2000 profesional)
> I can't get the file to play. I have both an aif and a wav file and
> neither will
> play with runrev. The aif file won't play in the windows media player

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