Does the Player object support AVI and WMV on Windows?

Jim Sims sims at ezpzapps.com
Wed Jan 9 06:06:38 EST 2008


On Jan 9, 2008, at 12:00 PM, Ian Wood wrote:

> The Player object is a QuickTime player, so setting dontUseQT to  
> false isn't going to do a lot...
>
> That means that a player object can't play WMVs at all unless you  
> are on a Mac with Flip4Mac installed, and support for AVIs is  
> pretty limited depending on the codec used for the AVI.
>
> I suspect that you should be looking at videoclip objects, not  
> player objects.



With Rev 2.6.4 I can play WMV files after setting dontuseqt to true.
(see 'Desk Doctor' at http://www.einspine.com )

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