Watching mpegs and windows media file

HI
I had asked this a while ago and someone suggested  an AVPlayerHD app.
I emailed files to my Ipad and was able to open them with it, somehow.
But it recently did a re-sink. I had to reload the app. Some of the files I origianlly sent were there. But When I email new ones I can't get them to open in it. They download as quicktime and won't open.
any clues???

andyulrika_is_back wrote:
> property thisSprite
> property thisDuration
>
> on beginSprite me
> thisSprite = me.spriteNum
> thisDuration = sprite(thisSprite).member.duration
> if sprite(thisSprite).movieTime > thisDuration -15
then
> sprite(thisSprite).stop()
> end if
> end
>
>
> My wmf is currently 15.7 seconds long. Am I doing
something wrong?
You want to check the movieTime in an exitFrame handler,
rather than just
once when the sprite begins:
property thisSprite
property thisDuration
on beginSprite me
thisSprite = sprite(me.spriteNum)
thisDuration = thisSprite.member.duration
end
on exitFrame
if thisSprite.movieTime > thisDuration -15 then
thisSprite.stop()
end if
end
HTH
Andrew

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