Does the Player object support AVI and WMV on Windows?

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Recently, Ian Wood wrote:
> The Player object is a QuickTime player,  so setting dontUseQT to false
> isn't going to do a lot...

Scott  said:
> This isn't the case, unless the Rev guys changed things  recently.  In fact,
> the docs say:
> "Use the dontUseQT  property to test operation of a stack using the built-in
> MCI video on  Windows systems..."
> The lack of QT functions on a system allows the  player use the available
> multimedia facilities of the machine -- ie WMP,  in the case of Windows -- 
to
> play media.  The available controls  are much more limited, but playback is
> certainly there -- I've delivered  CD titles based on this functionality.
> I'm just not sure if this was  ever fully documented in terms of the range 
of
> available  functions/features.


Then I have something odd with my machine as the Player results in  "could 
not create movie reference" for any WMV file. Or is WMV different to  WMP?

/H