See subject line. Subject line good. Subject line wanted. MIDI and MOD files hard make for dumb person like me. WAV files too big. MIDI, MOD may be small, but hard find composers and songs. This bad. Shoal want music in games, MIDI and MOD selection bad. That bad.
OGG open-source, not like MP3 and WMA. No royalties or licensing. OGG good.
I'd like to see Alex using the Media Player plugin in the future, that way a few format's would be supported (plus movies etc).
I'm sure there are other free plug-ins and such... Not sure if Quest even USES the media player plugin (which would allow MP3's).
But I suggest you put the .ogg file in with the game, and do a shell command in QDK. Then check to see if %quest.shellsuccess% = 3. If it does, then print a message giving a link to a good .ogg file player (like winamp). If not then the file shelled OK and they have a .ogg player.
Shoal
10 Aug 2005 15:36
What is this "Media Player" plugin?
paul_one
11 Aug 2005 14:29
The correct name would be "Window media player component". Quest is coded in VB5 and VB has "components", IIRC. If you put the WMP component into the VB project and run any file through it then you should be able to play any file WMP can play.