Quicktime with Rev
Trevor DeVore
lists at mangomultimedia.com
Thu Mar 31 16:49:43 EST 2005
On Mar 31, 2005, at 1:29 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:
>
>> It isn't necessarily a bug. Revolution uses the old method of opening
>> files with the QuickTime API which uses the FSSpec. This has file
>> name
>> as well as path name length limitations (255 for the full path). As
>> of
>> QT 6.4 (I think) QuickTime added new calls that open movies that can
>> have unicode names, etc. Eventually Rev needs to add support for
>> using
>> the newer calls when QuickTime supports it.
>
> I'm not sure the problem lies in the length of the overall file path
> -- it
> may be somehow related to the length of the name of the file itself.
> More
> testing needs to be done.
Yes, the limit of a file name using FSSpec is something like 32
characters.
> Regardless, this is absolutely a bug and needs to be dealt with, or
> needs a
> workaround developed for it. When a file that plays as expected using
> any
> other player (including Apple's own QT player) doesn't play in Rev
> purely
> because of the filename, this is a bug. As Rev developers, we can't
> release
> media playing apps and expect to tell users to rename their media
> files.
I agree that this definitely needs to be updated. Really all file name
handling needs to be. I don't think Rev supports Unicode path names
even though there is Unicode support for fields, etc. This creates a
real problem when creating multi-lingual apps that support Japanese,
Chinese, etc. filenames.
--
Trevor DeVore
Blue Mango Multimedia
trevor at mangomultimedia.com
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