Player will not play long file names!

[Mark Waddingham]

Hi Trevor,

This just creates a QT Movie using the NewMovieFromDataRef call (with  
dataRefType URLDataHandlerSubType).

Warmest Regards,

Mark.

On 2 Jul 2005, at 16:17, Trevor DeVore wrote:

> On Jul 2, 2005, at 7:17 AM, Mark Waddingham wrote:
>
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> As a work-around for this at the moment, try setting the filename  
>> of a player to a *real* file URL:
>>   e.g. file:///Volumes/Primary/Users/mark/Desktop/ 
>> mask_with_a_really_really_really_long_filename.tiff
>>
>> This uses a QT function direct, by-passing the engine's present  
>> limitation of 32 characters on OS X.
>>
>
> Mark,
>
> Does this just pass the file path to QT as a URL, bypassing the  
> FSSpec?
>
>
> -- 
> Trevor DeVore
> Blue Mango Multimedia
> trevor at mangomultimedia.com
>
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