| re: Running AVIs with sound in Access 2003
Bruce Dodds wrote:[color=blue]
> I'd like to know how to run AVI video files with sound in Access 2003.
> Microsoft's Animation ActiveX control doesn't play sound, so I tested
> Dev Ashish's fPlayStuff routine. This is failing with error code 263 -
> "The specified device is not open or is not recognized by MCI".
>
> Can anyone give me a workaround for this error code, or point me towards
> another AVI solution?
>
> TIA,
>
> Bruce[/color]
HAH. There is a Microsoft PRB (191089) that says that the mciSendString
function used in Dev's routine sometimes fails when long pathnames are
used. When I moved the AVI file to the root directory the problem
disappeared.
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