QT on Win: possible deal-breaker, need alternative

[Scott Rossi]

Richard:

I was one person who offered the suggestion.  I haven't tried the
revBrowser/Flash setup described specifically as an audio player, but I've
run a Flash-built interactive quiz I made under revBrowser and it seems to
run normally (audio, mouse events, etc).

Short of building your entire app in Flash, I don't see any other option for
you to get it to work within Rev without QuickTime.

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design


Recently, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> I have a project out to bid which is currently spec'd to require
> QuickTime on both Mac and Win.  The client is discussing this with his
> customers to determine whether it will be acceptable to them to install
> QT on their systems.  In the event that those customers say no I need a
> backup, and preferably one which lets me deliver this project in Rev.
> 
> Here are the specs:
> 
> a. Source media files are in WAV, AIF, and MP3, with thousands of them
> and many of full-length songs so embedded audio clips are not an option.
> 
> b. Must be able to play the file.
> 
> c. Must be able to move the playhead in whatever UI we deliver to allow
> playback from arbitrary starting points.
> 
> 
> In my tests here using a Win XP system without QT installed, b. works
> fine only for MP3, but I couldn't play WAV files in Rev at all.
> 
> c. was a non-starter for all formats: attempting to set the currentTime
> for a player control yielded no change to when the file began playing;
> if the file had not be played before it would only play from 0, and if
> it had played and been stopped using the stop command then the next play
> would always resume where it had last stopped, regardless of the
> currentTime.
> 
> Last time I asked about this here one of the responses (from Andre?)
> suggested using a player made with Flash embedded in HTML inside the Rev
> browser.
> 
> If we have no alternative that may be okay, but I'm concerned about the
> layers of overhead introduced by relying on those two extra components.
> 
> Have any of you used a similar configuration for playing WAV files on a PC?
> 
> Was the performance acceptable?
> 
> Any drawbacks with such a setup?