play videoClip "nameOfVideo" does not work, Please help

Devin Asay devin_asay at byu.edu
Tue Jul 12 12:20:53 EDT 2005


On Jul 12, 2005, at 9:57 AM, Ban Nguyen wrote:
>
> ----- Does it play .wmv movie?
> This is what I did:
> I create a button and put this code in there
> on mouseUp
>    play videoClip "MENTORS.wmv" at 100,100
> end mouseUp
>
> I didnot not work. What did I do wrong?  Please help

To the best of my knowledge, Revolution (and most other software  
video players) can not play .wmv files. This is a proprietary  
Microsoft technology whose format is not open source.

Others may be more familiar with this issue than I am.

Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University




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