#MCIAAP "White Flashes"
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Anyone,
When I play animations in Windows (3.1, WFW and '95), the screen flashes all
white for a bit before the animation actually starts playing. It seems to
happen in all the video modes and using many different video cards. Does
anyone know of a solution ? I tried the ANIPLAY "Convert Animation" feature
and didn't see any difference.
Any help is appreciated.
Dan Smith
Dan,
Is this white flash happening with the Windows FLC player, Animator Studio, or
the Animator Studio player? Also, which operating systems? Windows or WIN95?
Which cards? Does it happen on just the one flic or on any flc file?
-Brian
Brian,
The "white flash" doesn't happen with Animator Studio or the Animator Studio
player, nor the older Autodesk Animation Player. It does happen on every flc
when using mplayer and other applications that can play flc's like PowerPoint,
Compel, MediaBlitz, ToolBook (1.5 & 3.0), NetToob, etc. I've reproduced the
problem by running mplayer with different flc's on Windows 3.1, Windows for
WorkGroups, and Windows 95. I don't know all of the exact video card models.
The 8 PCs I've tested with are all brand new Gateways, Compaqs, and Toshibas.
It happens in 256, 32000, 64000, and 16.7 million color modes on each machine.
One other note — when using mplayer, the flash only occurs the first time a
particular flc is played (if you bring up mplayer and load the flc, the flash
will occur the first time you press the play button; if you press play a second
time the flash will not occur; if you load a new flc and press play the flash
occurs again.
Thanks for taking a look at it.
Dan
P.S. It happens with fli's too. I may be mistaken but I think I started
experiencing this when the MCIAAP.DRV/AAVGA.DLL/AAPLAY.DLL package was updated
maybe a year or so ago. Prior to that I don't recall every seeing the problem.
Sorry, but there is not much that can be done about that white flash. That is
the effect that is noticable when the initial screen repaints the new animation
window on top of the media player window. The animation window is actually two
windows, a borderless window placed on top of the window that the media player
creates. That flash is the redraw of the second window.
This is actually the way it happens in our windows player as well, the flash or
window redraw still happens. However since the repaint command is not being
funneled through a MCI driver or external program, it happens much faster, and
is not as noticable.
-Brian