Learning center videos don't play

[Trevor DeVore]

On Oct 21, 2005, at 11:55 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> Thanks Trevor. But he only installed QT to see if that helped. As I  
> understand it, the videos should have played via WMP to begin with.  
> I forgot to mention that he tried installing on a different Windows  
> machine as well, with the same non-results. Since Rev installs the  
> codec according to platform, I suspected that codecs aren't the  
> problem, but of course, I'd love to be wrong. Or maybe I'm  
> misunderstanding something.
>
> Apparently clicking the Play button in the learning center does  
> nothing. Any other ideas?

Okay, I didn't realize that on Windows it tries to use Windows Media  
Player.  Looking at the code for the online viewer I would check that  
path where Windows Media Player is installed.  The path is hard coded  
in the online viewer:

============
  case "Win32"
     put false into sgSystemPlayer
     if there is a file "C:/Program Files/Windows Media Player/ 
wmplayer.exe" then
       put "C:/Program Files/Windows Media Player/wmplayer.exe  
[[quote]][[sgVideoFilename]][[quote]]" into sgPlayerCommand
     else if there is a file "C:/Program Files/Windows Media Player/ 
mplayer2.exe" then
       put "C:/Program Files/Windows Media Player/mplayer2.exe  
[[quote]][[sgVideoFilename]][[quote]]" into sgPlayerCommand
     end if
     set the visible of control "Play" of me to true
     break
============

I assume that if the Media Player isn't located at "C:/Program Files/ 
Windows Media Player/wmplayer.exe" or "C:/Program Files/Windows Media  
Player/mplayer2.exe" then the launch command further on down would fail.


-- 
Trevor DeVore
Blue Mango Multimedia
trevor at mangomultimedia.com