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erilaz

04-06-2004, 04:24 AM

Hi all,
Radgames used to have an xtra for director that supported bink format, which is now discontinued. I was wondering if anyone has worked out a way to use the format within director, including activex controls if necessary.

It's a long shot I know...:)

djwarder

04-10-2004, 04:04 PM

Hmmm. Last time I did a Director presentation, I had to play a fullscreen MPEG-2 video (back when MP2 was new, and you needed hardware to run it) from the presentation using nothing but Lingo - no Xtra, no SDK, nothing!!

What I had to do is run the video file from Lingo using the 'open' or 'exec' command (not sure if correct). See this article ...

http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/ts/documents/open_app_or_projector.htm

Might work, but will need the Bink player/codec installed on the users machine ...

Dan

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