More & More Movie Difficulties (videoclip, audioclip, player)

[peter.fink at tiscali.ch]

On this Windows 98 SE system, the following 11 facts hold, regarding movies,
and the folling facts 4 regarding sounds.

(a) play videoclip "movie.avi" does not play the movie that is contained
in the stack.

(b) play videoclip "movie.mpeg" does not the the movie that is contained
in the stack.

(c) play videoclip "f:/movie.avi" does play the file indicated.

(d) play videoclip "f:/movie.mpeg" does play the file indicated.

(e) play videoclip "movie.avi" does not play the file in the defaultfolder.

(f) play videoclip "./movie.avi" does not play the file in the defaultfolder.

(g) play videoclip "../revolution1.1.1/movie.avi) does play the file in
the defaultfolder.

(h) (i) (k) same for "movie.mpeg" as (e) thru (g).

(l) creating a quicktime player works mostly as advertised, for movies.
Except some .mpeg cause an error message "cannot create movie reference".

(m) play audioclip "sound.wav" does play the sound contained in the stack.

(n) play audioclip "f:/sound.wav" does play the file indicated.

(o) creating a quicktime player works exactly as advertised, for wav and
mp3 sound files.

(p) a quicktime player is always at the front layer. It cannot be hidden
with an opaque button (which would make sense, given the quality of some
test videos that are available to me).

Peter