MP3 without QuickTime on Windows

[Kevin Miller]

On 10/2/05 10:37 pm, "Ben Rubinstein" <benr_mc at cogapp.com> wrote:

>> The subsystem we use is not currently the full Windows Media Player, so MP3
>> will not work without QuickTime (yet).  You may be able to get this to work
>> with MCISendString().
> 
> Kevin, thanks for the information.  I'll look into MCISendString.
> 
> What puzzles me however is that it seems the app will play MP3 without
> QuickTime in some situations - eg on a bog-standard PC running normal
> Windows XP - but not in another - ie my target device running XP Embedded.
> Can you shed any light on this?

You need to install an MP3 codec in the Windows operating system itself.
Windows Media Player 10 will install one, as will iTunes.  This sort of
audio codec will then be picked up by Rev even without QuickTime.

> (BTW this is quite a fun project, and Rev is performing splendidly well.  If
> we make it out of prototype and into deployment, I look forward to giving
> Rod a case study.)

Sounds good!

Kind regards,

Kevin

Kevin Miller ~ kevin at runrev.com ~ http://www.runrev.com/
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