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Win9x has file handle leaks when playing media files and there is nothing you
can do to stop them (although someone could gladly prove me wrong).  We simply
switched the OS to NT4 and they will play forever.

Mark Newland wrote:

> I have an application written in Builder 3 (and compiled in Builder 5) that
> uses TMediaPlayer class for displaying my AVIs (MPEG-2).  I have 10 MPGs
> that run sequentially forever.  Each MPG is about 30 seconds long.  After
> about 46 hours and 20 minutes.  The video window comes up  black but there
> is no output.  The application is still running because there is a watchdog
> timer that would reboot the machine if the app hangs.  If you exit the
> program and re-run it, the window remains black (no visible output).  If you
> reboot, everything works fine until about 46 hours and 20 minutes later.
>
> I rewrote the app under VC++ 6.0 using the mciSendCommand APIs and the same
> thing happens.  I'm running under Win98SE, but the same thing happens in
> WinME.
>
> Any ideas?????
>
> Mark (mark@gloryworks.com)

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