Setting quicktime engine in standalone

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Mattijs

Hi,

I can't seem to find out how to tell a standalone to use the quicktime engine instead of the avf engine. The standalone object doesn't seem to have this as a parameter.

Could anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks,
Mattijs

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Ben Bracken

Hi Mattijs,

You can either loadbang a message box containing:
;max videoengine qt

or set the @engine attribute in the relevant objects.

-Ben

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Ben Bracken

You can also create a file named "jitter-config.txt" with the ';max videoengine qt' message as it's text, located in the init folder (yourapp.app/Contents/Resources/C74/init) and it will be executed on load.

-Ben

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Mattijs

Hi Ben,

The loadbang message box approach or the init folder don't seem to work so far, but indeed the @engine parameter seems to work!

Thank you!
Mattijs

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Rob Ramirez

hi mattijs.
just to be clear, the text file in the init folder should contain the following line:max videoengine qt;

i just tested, and indeed it does change the default video-engine in the standalone to qt.

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Mattijs

Hi Rob,

Aah yup, I placed the semicolon in the wrong location.

Thanks for clarifying!