A small bug with Authorware 6.5. OBP and wmv files

Recently a developer posted to the macromedia.authorware newsgroup, voicing concerns that his wmv file would play in authoring mode, but not when packaged. He received this error "Unable to load external movie driver for: movieName.wmf. Possibly the driver is missing or there is not enough memory."

After some exploration I realised that his problem was caused by an error in OBP (the One button Publishing feature). It seems that OBP does not pick up the fact that the file a6wmp32.xmo is required for movie files that use the new Windows Media Player support within the Movie icon. I mailed Macromedia about this and Stefan van As replied with the full solution.

The OBP settings are held in an ini file called Xtras.ini which by default should be located in the folder C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Authorware 6.5. The version of the file distributed with Authorware 6.5 contains a small error. The [movies] section should be replaced with this updated text:-

.AVI="A%sVFW32.XMO"
.MOV="A%sQT32.XMO"
.QT="A%sQT32.XMO"
.MPG="A%sMPEG32.XMO"
.MPEG="A%sMPEG32.XMO"
.ASF="A%sWMP32.XMO"
.ASX="A%sWMP32.XMO"
.WMV="A%sWMP32.XMO"
.IVF="A%sWMP32.XMO"
.WMP="A%sWMP32.XMO"
.DIR="A%sDIR32.XMO", "DIRECTOR\M5DRVR32.EXE", "DIRECTOR\M5DRVR32.RSR", "DIRECTOR\M5IF32.DLL", "DIRECTOR\XOBGLU32.DLL", "DIRECTOR\D60XTRA.MCH", "DIRECTOR\ASIPORT.RSR", "DIRECTOR\ASIFONT.MAP", "DIRECTOR\FONTMAP.TXT", "DIRECTOR\MACROMIX.DLL", "DIRECTOR\DIRDIB.DRV", "DIRECTOR\LINGO.INI", "DIRECTOR\FILEIO.DLL", "DIRECTOR\XTRAS\SNDIMP.X32", "DIRECTOR\XTRAS\GIFIMP.X32", "DIRECTOR\XTRAS\JPEGIMP.X32", "DIRECTOR\XTRAS\MIX32.X32", "DIRECTOR\XTRAS\SWADCMPR.X32"

If you cannot spot it, the problem is that the first several lines begin with two periods in the original file - they should actually begin with only a single period as shown above.

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Steve