[futurebasic] Re: [FB] MPEG movies and QuickTime (LONG)

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From: Peuapeu@...
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 20:07:52 EDT
In a message dated 6/19/01 4:42:42 PM, AlStaff@... writes:

<< I believe MPG files can not be played on 68K Macs. If they can't, then it 
seems quite possible that a 68K native application won't be able to play them 
either if the codec doesn't work in 68K. You may need to upgrade to FB 3 and 
compile for PPC Macs for that to work.
 >>

If an FBII application can interface with QuickTime 4.0 on an iMAC in order 
to play AVI, MOV and GIFs, why wouldn't it also interface to play an MPG?  It 
is not the FBII application that contains the code that is playing the movie 
... its the QuickTime that is being called, right?  or wrong?

James Schumacher