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posted 08-14-2008 11:07 AM            

So I am having this weird problem. I am building a PC/XP screensaver from an OSX environment, and when I test this screensaver on the same machine (I am running VMware and XP) everything works fine.

If I move this to another machine, things get broken. I read the thread about osx having double resource forks, so I zipped it up on a mac before moving the zip file onto a pc.

Once the installer is moved onto a PC, I extract the .zip files and I get 2 files:

1. A folder named "_MACOSX"
2. The PC screensaver installer.

When I try to install using the installer, the executable launches, but I immediately notice that the graphics that I imported as the title screen is gone, and the default iScreensaver title is there, however the text I wrote for the "About this screensaver" is still there.

It seems to install somewhat, despite these 2 weird things, however when I try to run the screensaver, I get a blank screen, and this error message:
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iScreensaver: An error occured.
Internal Error = cStage.NextAsset: movie file won't open : c:\Documents....etc...mov

Please help!

Thanks in advance.

posted 08-14-2008 01:06 PM            

took me four hours to figure this out because I assumed everyone at least had some form of quicktime.