Quicktime / player limits?

[Stephen Barncard]

Hi Jacque,

no, tons of ram (2 gigs, 4 apps running, and the download time 
difference between 3 and 5 mb is negligible on a 6mbs cable modem.

other interesting developments:

alwaysbuffer set to true does not seem to improve things.

setting the alwaysbuffer to true also seems to lock out mouseclicks 
on the controller. stopping and starting can then only be 
accomplished with the spacebar in this mode, play/pause and 
forward/reverse are disabled.

I got the video to stream from a real quicktime streaming server, and 
it worked. However, it did not automatically size to its proper 
height and width as it does using a http or local file reference, but 
instead shrunk to the default size.

In that case it appears one must know the dimensions in advance.

>
>I've displayed 60 meg movies in a player object so I don't think 
>there's a size limitation, but the movies I ran were saved to disk. 
>Could it be there's not enough RAM? Or that it is taking a long time 
>to download that much movie?
>
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>Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
>

>Stephen Barncard wrote:
>>I've created a player in rev that reads Quicktime movies from a web 
>>server. Rev 2.7.4, enterprise, Mac OS X latest.
>>
>>It works quite well, and I was happily in the process of making the 
>>tutorials, when the third, longer movie I made would seem to load 
>>without errors, but would not show.
>>
>>Is there a limit to the size of a QT movie that can be displayed? I 
>>can show a 3mb movie, but 4 and 5 mb movies don't show.
>>
>>Right now I'm just loading them right in via http: and the URL command.

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stephen barncard
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