Opening a video in Windows Media Player

How do you open a video in Windows Media Player?
The video I'm trying to open in Windows Media Player is an
avi file.
I noticed that in the Authorware 7 book, it says to simply
add a
wmp after "avi". For ex: myvideo.avi.wmp
It then says to place or import that file onto Authorware
(the flowline).
However when I play it to view, it does not open in Windows
Media
Player. Can someone help me with this problem?
Thank you.

Yes it did. Thanx Erik. Appreciate it.
quote:
Originally posted by:
Newsgroup User
No.
Do NOT use the video icon. As has been stated here a few
times, that is
ONLY for playing the movie INside Authorware.
If you want to play a movie OUTside Authorware, you use the
JumpOUTReturn function, NOT the JumpFILEReturn function.
Your folder setup is good.
So with that folder setup, assuming 'myvideo.avi' is in the
same folder
as your Authorware file, just do:
JumpOutReturn("", FileLocation^"myvideo.avi")
That work for you?
Erik
V1ck1_D wrote:
> I redid this task, I did everything the same as I did
before (posted above)
> accept I changed the file path so it would be shorter
and to avoid the
> mistakes in the path.
>
>
> I created a folder called "Testing".
>
> Created a file in Authorware called "Testing" (a7p) and
inserted that into the
> "Testing" folder.
>
> Inserted an avi video in the "Testing" folder
>
> So with that done I redid the coding in the calc. icon
as:
> JumpFileReturn("", FileLocation^"myvideo.avi")
>
> Placed my "myvideo.avi" icon below the calc icon.
>
>
> Is the coding correct.
> If someone would help me with this, I would really
appreciate it.
> Thank you.
>
>
Erik Lord
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