audio on windows not playing

Klaus Major klaus at major-k.de
Fri Nov 26 07:05:01 EST 2004


Hi Kevin,

> 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).

yes, with UNCOMPRESSED aif files!

> Kind regards,
>
> Kevin
>
> Kevin Miller ~ kevin at runrev.com ~ http://www.runrev.com/
> Runtime Revolution - User-Centric Development Tools

Best

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
http://www.major-k.de



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