I'm creating a cd-rom that needs to be cross-platform for mac and pc. I'm creating it on a pc, and so far, i have succeeded to get everything to work on both platforms, except for video. I have a 4 minute video that plays when the user clicks on a link. I tried it 2 different ways, the first way only worked on pc - and that was to make the video (mpeg1) into an exe file, using a program called slimshow, then use a fscommand to play the exe from the flash standalone projector. The second way, which i thought would be cross-platform, was to convert the video to an swf file using either swideo or flix, but apparently a mac has problems playing this too. My guess is that the mac didn't have enough memory allocated for the standalone. I don't want the user to have to allocate memory just play the cd-rom.
I thought maybe the answer would be to open url from within the standalone, and have the video file accessed by embedding it in the html of the url. This would allow the browser to play it, but i couldn't get the url to open on top of the standalone, it opens beneath it, and it can't be seen. I also didn't try it on a mac, so i'm not sure if this is the way to go.
I liked the quality that i got by converting the mpeg to an exe, then using the fscommand to run the exe, but does anyone know how to create a similar file for the mac?
What is the best way to make a cross-platform standalone that plays video?
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