Problems with streaming audio

[Mark Talluto]

> On Sep 12, 2005, at 11:31 AM, Trevor DeVore wrote:
>
>
>> Mark,
>>
>> Have you tried controlling streaming movies by setting playRate?   
>> This has worked reliably in my tests and it fixed a problem that  
>> one person had been having for 6 months.  Just don't use start/ 
>> stop player.
>>
>
> Trevor,
>
> I just tested using playRate and it works well.  I could not  
> replicate the problems with players that are created and set to  
> play automatically.  Thanks for the tip!  I will update Bugzilla  
> with this info.
>
> If you have a player with the controller visible, and the player is  
> not started with the playRate command, then the problem returns.  I  
> supposed a frontscript could catch the clicking of the mouseUp on  
> the controller's play button.  I tied putting a mouseUp in the  
> player itself.  If you click on the movie portion, it works.  If  
> you click on the player button in the controller, it gives an error  
> of:  5401 Bad State.
>
> This is a viable workaround for now though.  Thanks!

I also wanted to add that using setting the playRate property also  
speeds up the starting of streaming content to instant on!  Starting  
the player on Macs could take up to 5 seconds to start.


Mark Talluto
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