Why doesn a Video for Windows (.AVI) sprite have an option to display a controller bar on the stage?
Because the Video for Windows API doesn’t include this functionality. You can, however, create your own custom buttons and sliders to allow control of the .AVI using standard Director authoring techniques. Q: Why does the digital video sprite initially play fine, but then randomly plays very poorly (or stops completely), especially when other animation plays in the same frame, and especially when I play from a CD-ROM? A: The Director movie may be managing more simultaneous processes (digital video, animation, Lingo, etc.) than the computer system can handle at one time. Or: There may be a disk access problem: the CD-ROM disk head can’t be in two places at once. Because digital video is streamed continuously from disk, any other disk access (such as when loading other cast members) may interrupt its playback.
