QT on Win: possible deal-breaker, need alternative

[Terry Judd]

I like the look of this. I'm going to have to push an app out to a variety
of hospital settings soon where QT is the exception rather than the norm so
it may well do the job. Thanks (to all concerned) for the recommendation.

Terry...


On 1/12/09 10:36 AM, "Andre Garzia" <andre at andregarzia.com> wrote:

> jw flv player is very stable. I've used it before for doing exactly that
> (playing mp3 inside rev) and it works quite well.
> 
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 7:47 PM, stephen barncard <
> stephenREVOLUTION2 at barncard.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hey Richard,
>> 
>> What about licensing one of those soup-to-nuts javascript players like JW
>> Player in conjunction with RevBrowswer.   Doesn't javascript and Flash run
>> in RevBrowser?
>> 
>> I think this one has a lot of options:
>> http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/jw-flv-player/
>> 
>> It appears to play EVERYA/V format, not just MP3s and flvs.
>> 
>> I don't know how stable this lash-up is, but it's a thought. At least a
>> browser is a standard install on both platforms and the meat of the display
>> code is updated with the user's browser.
>> 
>> 
>> -------------------------
>> Stephen Barncard
>> San Francisco
>> http://houseofcubes.com/disco.irev
>> 
>> 
>> 2009/11/30 Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com>
>> 
>>> 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?
>>> 
>>> --
>>>  Richard Gaskin
>>>  Fourth World
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