Dear fellow monks,

I am writing a Perl/Tk application that should play video files of the format .avi.

The code is part of a larger project but I have created a small perl script that should demonstrate my test case. The problem is the module's unstable behaviour. In other words, in several PCs (and independently of the Windows OS) and/or for some avi files this code works, whereas in other pcs and/or for other avi files it doesn't, i.e. the script does not play the video and at the same time no error is displayed.

My code is as follows: 
use Tk;
use warnings;
use Win32::MultiMedia::Mci;

my $file = "pathtofile/file.avi";
my $mw = tkinit;
my $counter = 10;
my $frame = $mw->Frame(-height => 300, -width =>400)->pack;
my $hexid = hex($frame->id);
$mci = Win32::MultiMedia::Mci->open($file, 'parent'=>$hexid, 'style'=>
+'child');
$mci->play('repeat');
$mw->update;
while ($counter > 0) {
    sleep 1;
    $counter -=1;
}
$mci->stop();
$mci->close;
Mainloop;

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Have you ever used this CPAN module? Do you have any suggestions on what could be wrong?

Thanks very much in advance,
Athanasia

P.S I have ActivePerl-5.8.8.822 installed and have tried the script in several Windows Vista Home Premium, Windows XP notebooks with various results.

In reply to Unstable behaviour of Win32::MultiMedia module by athanasia

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