Playing Real Video Files

[pongo]

I'm trying to play a Real Video file in my project using the "Play Multimedia" attached to a text button. I placed the presentation on CD-Rom to test it, when the button to play the Real file is pressed I get the following message:

"there is no application associated with the given file name extension"

the thing is that there is, I copied the file to my computer, executed it and it opens just fine with Real Player so the file association is fine. I tried changing the extension with the ones that I placed on the CD-Rom, I have used "rm & ram" and nothing, I still get the same message. I used the same command with an avi file and it plays fine, but I really need to use the real format.

Any suggestions? please help :-(

[Mark]

Re: Playing Real Video Files

Hi,
If the PLAY MULTIMEDIA action returns that error, and you know that the file format is supported try using the OPEN DOCUMENT action instead. Personally I believe that it is best to always use the OPEN DOCUMENT command, because some multimedia formats/players do not support the PLAY shell verb.

mark.

[This message has been edited by Mark (edited 03-02-2001).]

[pongo]

Re: Playing Real Video Files

it worked :-)

thanks a lot!!!