Hi Per,

It's me again. Like always several solutions are possible. One is to write the complete absolute path when opening [read /klipp/1.mov]. Another way is to add the directory where the movie files are into the Max search path. You can do this via the preferences in the menu.

Jan

hi again

ok thanks. the problem is though still there. heres the patch.

I get the errormessage: cant find the file /klipp/1.mov and so on. but the path should be right cause I can see them in the umenu.

any more tips? (thankks a lot jan)

I can't see your patch here - No Max on that machine. can you send me a .maxpat that i can open with Runtime or a screen-shot?

ok, here it comes

whoops wrong file

correct one here

cant seem to be able to upload again. strange.

here it comes through dropbox instead:

Here everything works as intended.

Maybe some hints you to look at:

If Max tries to open a file (i.e. with the read message to jit.qt.movie) it first looks for the file in the same location where the patch is located.

If it doesn't find it. It will look for a file in all directories listed in the search path.

In case several file with the same name are found you'll find a message in the max window, which one was opened. In any case you can always specify an absolute path with the filename.

If your path or the filename contains spaces you need to put in to quotes.

"/path with/spaces/file name.mov"

In general check if you have unintended spaces in your message (that happens i.e. if you compose the the filename and the path using i.e. [prepend], [append] or a mesagebox with [$1 $2]. In that case use [sprintf].

heres again through dropbox

gotta leave now. will look at it later tonight....

solved it. i typed the path wrong