Player will not play long file names!

Trevor DeVore lists at mangomultimedia.com
Sat Jul 2 11:17:12 EDT 2005


On Jul 2, 2005, at 7:17 AM, Mark Waddingham wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> As a work-around for this at the moment, try setting the filename  
> of a player to a *real* file URL:
>   e.g. file:///Volumes/Primary/Users/mark/Desktop/ 
> mask_with_a_really_really_really_long_filename.tiff
>
> This uses a QT function direct, by-passing the engine's present  
> limitation of 32 characters on OS X.

Mark,

Does this just pass the file path to QT as a URL, bypassing the FSSpec?


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Trevor DeVore
Blue Mango Multimedia
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