Quicktime / player limits?

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Sat Jan 27 22:58:54 EST 2007


Stephen Barncard wrote:
> I've created a player in rev that reads Quicktime movies from a web 
> server. Rev 2.7.4, enterprise, Mac OS X latest.
> 
> It works quite well, and I was happily in the process of making the 
> tutorials, when the third, longer movie I made would seem to load 
> without errors, but would not show.
> 
> Is there a limit to the size of a QT movie that can be displayed? I can 
> show a 3mb movie, but 4 and 5 mb movies don't show.
> 
> Right now I'm just loading them right in via http: and the URL command.

I've displayed 60 meg movies in a player object so I don't think there's 
a size limitation, but the movies I ran were saved to disk. Could it be 
there's not enough RAM? Or that it is taking a long time to download 
that much movie?

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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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