1 May 2006 01:08
Re: Is WMV possible in Rev
Mark is probably a more serious multimedia developer than I, but I've done a lot with video and audio importand play in Rev in the past few months. My view is almsot the same as his (and I, too, own Flip4Mac, a delightful program that not only lets me play WMV files on OS X without using Windows Media Player but also lets me save QT files in .WMV format, which for Web delivery is a real godsend). I think the best solution for cross-platform playback is definitely MP3. I have not used .AVI primarily because I've found MP3 to be so useful. However, there is one potential problem with MP3s and that is the one Mark alludes to in his response. You really have to stick to very generic codecs when you create your MP3 files or you will find yourself eitner saddled with the responsibility of notifying your users what codec to get and how or with unhappy users whose experience with your MP3s is not on a par with their experience with "everyone else's" MP3s, making it, of course, your fault that your sounds don't play well. WIth QT, that's less a problem, and since Rev handles QT files seamlessly, I tend to deliver my sound and video products to end users as a Rev app with QT files stored as custom properties and bundled with the app. So far, nobody has said they couldn't play those files on any platform and nobody has yet complained about quality or anything else. So that's my first solution when I'm delivering a Rev app. I use MP3s when I store sound on the Web for download without benefit of a Rev application. (There are other advantages to using Rev custom properties to store the sound files. The user gets a single download, and you can avoid the necessity of the user even having to know where the files are stored because...in effect...they're not.)(Continue reading)
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