[DMDX] Re: Digital Video At 12:40 PM 4/19/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
> >    Yeah, but that's not windows playing them, that's Quicktime and I'm not
> > convinced QT actually uses windows functions to play files.
> >    But Windows Media Player won't play .MOVs so DMDX won't either.
>
>The help file said DMDX would support QT.

   It did when I wrote it but .MOV is moving target so getting old 
operating systems to work with the latest and greatest compression formats 
is fraught with peril.

>  -But never mind that, I could always
>save them into a different format. It won't run AVIs or MPGs either. Same 
>error
>message (VFW_E-NOT_FOUND...).
>
> > Sounds  like you've got a balky machine there if WM 9 was causing 
> trouble and
>it's
>
>No arguments, my office machine is still at Win98 (no XP) and it has led an
>exciting life.  But my lab machine has hardly been messed with at all and it
>doesn't work on that either (also Win98). They both have 3D acceleration
>enabled at this point (must have turned it off accidentally).

   If you're still using win98 all bets are off, I haven't used that in 
three years.  Maybe four.  So any advice I can give is probably wayyyy off 
base.

> >    If you don't repair XP you need to spend time with the Refresh Test,
> > maybe you need to turn off Read Between Flips to Stop Cheating Drivers too.
>
>I did plug in some plausible values so at least it *runs*, but same error
>message on Digital Video test. I've messed with options under "Refresh Rate
>(Basic) and Task Priorities" (Advanced) to no avail. Do I have to override the
>DirectX refresh rate values or something? I could swear I've gotten the 
>example
>to run in the test before...

   I suspect you need to be using XP.  Or at the very least reformatting 
and reinstalling 98 as it just plain stops working past a certain point.


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