-23- Does anyone know the maximum size a movie file that MovieMaker or MoviePlayer can handle? Is it limited by free memory, or will it play from the hard drive?

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Subject:   -23- Does anyone know the maximum size a movie file that
                MovieMaker or MoviePlayer can handle?  Is it limited by
                free memory, or will it play from the hard drive?
Date: Thu Nov 17 09:08:40 PST 1994

  Movieplayer plays movies from the hard drive.  Moviemaker edits
  movies directly on disk.

  It is entirely possible to write an appplication which plays
  movies entirely from memory (see below for details), but
  Movieplayer does not support that.