audio on windows not playing

Kevin Miller kevin at runrev.com
Fri Nov 26 06:57:08 EST 2004


On 26/11/04 10:01 am, "Signe Marie Sanne" <signe.sanne at roman.uib.no> wrote:

>> 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.
>> snip...
> 
> It is indeed possible to play external wav files w/o Quicktime on the PC by
> making use of mciSendString, which requires Windows Multimedia Tools
> (usually installed on all PCs). Just write me offlist and then I can send
> you a small stack with the scripts.

If you use the "play audioClip" command, it will work without using
Quicktime and play AIFF and AU files (on any platform).

Kind regards,

Kevin

Kevin Miller ~ kevin at runrev.com ~ http://www.runrev.com/
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