Windows playing .mov file from server?

[dbailey]

Hi All,

My desktop app plays .mov videos streamed from a server and works ok on a mac, when I run the program on Windows the video does not play, I'm using the play control

e.g:


put the selectedtext of field "Video List" into theVideoFileName
replace space with "%20" in theVideoFileName
put playlistURL & theVideoFileName into VideoUrl
set the filename of player "Viewer" to VideoUrl
set the currentTime of player "Viewer" to 0
start player "Viewer"

[Klaus]

Maybe a stupid question, but is QuickTIme installed on the target PC?
This is of course mandatory!

I have a vague memory that instead of using "start player xyz" we should use:
...
set the playrate of player "Viewer" to 1
## for online videos in a player object...
...
No ida why, but worth a try

[dbailey]

Thanks Klaus,

Some may have some may not so my solution now has been to detect what os is running then display message ensuring user has installed Quicktime v7 or above.