CompuServe Messages

Mei-Tien, It isn't only Media Player you need to worry about. Each of the different codecs you might use also have their own size quirks. Most of them will simply not go beyond 320 by 240 and give any reasonable error message about why they're screwing up. They simply screw up. This type of unreasonable artificial limitation is among the worst programming practices one can commit. Especially when the artificial limitation is bound to be hit with the inexorable march of progress. A previous message said to try only values which were multiples of 20. This is not likely to produce valid sizes since most coding errors in this type of code centers around being multiples of 8 or 16 or 32. Remember to try values which are in the 4:3 ratio as 160:120 or 320:240. Try bumping up the width by 80 and computing the corresponding height to fit the 4:3 rule (ie: add 60 to the height). (ahhh, by adding multiples of 20 as a previous message said, you'll be a multiple of 8 half of the time which is why it seemed to work for the poster of that message). Jason Numerologist Extraordinaire