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- From: arthur@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (John Vaudin)
- Subject: MCI string query
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.123521.21105@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
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- Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 12:35:21 GMT
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- Can anyone help me with a query on programming a DVI card (under OS/2
- and MMPM/2) using the MCI string interface?
-
- I'm trying to play videos without opening and closing the display context
- each time, as this slows things down greatly.
-
- The following works but is painfully slow (around 10 seconds to start
- playing each video):
-
- open video1.avs
- play digitalvideo
- close digitalvideo
- open video2.avs
- play digitalvideo
- close digitalvideo
- ...
-
- I would like to do the following:
-
- open digitalvideo
- load video1.avs
- play digitalvideo
- load video2.avs
- play digitalvideo
- ...
- close digitalvideo
-
- But on attempting the 'load' I get an 'instance inactive' error message.
- Any suggestions?
-
- Thanks,
-
- Rolf Howarth
- rolf@parallax.demon.co.uk
-