movie problem

[hardev]

i jsut completed making a cdrom and am currently testing it.
the cdrom contains a mpeg movie. when i tested it on my pc, everything works fine. however when i tested on another pc (win98, pentium 200), the movie doesnt play. the movie controller appears in dark grey and instead of the movie playing, the windows media player logo appears.
must windows media player installed in order to play the movi??? thanks in advance.

[eric_darling]

Re: movie problem

Yes, you need to have at least v. 6.0 for MPEG-1, I think. Someone please correct me if I am wrong (which I always reserve the right to be [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/wink.gif[/img])

[Darryl]

Re: movie problem

You can find a Knowledge Base article that describes the requirements for the Media Player Object and others at the following URL:

http://www.indigorose.com/ubbthreads...o=0&fpart=

[hardev]

Re: movie problem

sorry for the late reply.
the pc that i am having problems with has msdxm.ocx. i tried serching for it and i found it in the system folder. why isnt it working??? the movie is in mpeg-1 format and is about 25mb in size. i am about to send it for replication and i am worried that the movie wont play.

[Darryl]

Re: movie problem

On that Windows 98 machine, are you able to play the video file outside of AutoPlay Media Studio?

Are you including the requirements dialog in your AutoPlay application? You can include this check by going to Project->Settings and then clicking the "Requirements" tab. Then check the "Microsoft Media Player Control" checkbox. After doing this and running your application on the system, does that requirements check dialog display? If it does, the control may not be registered properly, or something of that sort.

What audio or video codecs have you used to create your video? Does the target system have those installed, if not, does it have internet access in order to download them if it does not have it?