QT Movies playing roughly

[Jan Schenkel]

--- Graham Samuel <livfoss at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> I've got an app with a couple of really trivial QT
> movies, each 
> consisting of about 30 frames  plus a soundtrack,
> set to loop until 
> stopped. One of them shows a motor with a little
> propeller going 
> round. The thing is scripted so that the propeller
> can go at 
> different speeds and either forward or backward.
> This works fine just 
> using Apple's QuickTime Player on my Macs (version 5
> or 6), but when 
> it's in a player object in a Revolution standalone,
> the motion is 
> extremely rough. The soundtrack seems to work OK,
> but the visuals 
> either miss out frames or stop completely. On
> restarting the player, 
> one gets a bit of movement and then the thing goes
> all choppy again. 
> The other movie behaves the same way but the lack of
> movement isn't 
> so obvious because of the particular animation
> involved.
> 
> I need to use player objects rather than Revo
> animations so that I 
> can let the user move them around the screen and so
> that I can script 
> the forward/ reverse/ speed change behaviour.
> 
> Is this a known problem? Is there anything I can do
> about it?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Graham

Hi Graham,

A few things spring to mind:
- Is it possible that another object overlaps the
player ?
- What's the setting of the 'alwaysBuffer' property of
the player and the stack ?

Jan Schenkel.

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"As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time."  (La Rochefoucauld)

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