WAV without QT

[Luis]

Hiya,

Not sure if I recollect this right, you might want to issue a shell 
command to re-associate wmplayer to the .wav files:

assoc .wav=wmplayer

Cheers,

Luis.



Richard Gaskin wrote:
> Scott Rossi wrote:
> 
>> Recently, Jim Bufalini wrote:
>>
>>>> That MIGHT work, but the client would prefer an
>>>> out-of-the-box-with-nothing-else-required-for-the-user-to-do solution.
>>>
>>> WAV stands for "Windows" Audio, so by default, Windows Media Player is
>>> configured to play WAV files. If it's not, it means they already messed
>>> around and installed some other player on the machine which "stole" 
>>> the WAV
>>> format and assigned it to itself and then they deleted the player and 
>>> so now
>>> there is no player associated with WAV.
>>
>> Actually, I don't believe this is the case.  My version of Windows Media
>> Player on Vista (which says is version 11.x) is fine playing WAV 
>> files, but
>> with dontUseQT enabled in Rev, a player whose filename is set to an 
>> external
>> WAV file refuses to play (error: could not open video player).  This 
>> is on a
>> machine that does have QT installed, but I believe the behavior is the 
>> same
>> on machines without QT: even though WAVs might play directly from WMP, 
>> they
>> don't in Rev.  I was quite surprised to discover this and just goes to 
>> show
>> how desperately in need of updating are Rev's audio facilities.
>>
>> As far as Richard's question goes, the only way I know of to play a 
>> WAV file
>> reliably on Windows without QT is to import the WAV into Rev as an
>> audioClip.  But then I don't believe you can control the start/stop 
>> time or
>> similar properties.
>>
>> I can't think of a workaround to the problem other than to control an
>> external playback mechanism using sockets, COM, MCI, or whatever 
>> facilities
>> are available for the player.
> 
> Hopefully it won't come to that.  The client is evaluating the tradeoffs 
>  of requiring their customers to install QT, and maybe that evaluation 
> will be favorable for this project.
> 
> It seems the reason Rev stumbles with native Win playback is that it's 
> using The API That Time Forgot - here's Trevor's comment from a year and 
> a half ago in
> <http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=6342>:
> 
>    Just a note that movie files that play in Windows Media Player
>    won't necessarily play in Rev because Rev uses MCI, not the
>    modern media APIs.
> 
> MCI?  Ah yes, from the days of OS/2...
> 
> I hate having to tell a client that Rev can't do something so basic that 
> affects some 80% of computer users.
> 
> -- 
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