INSTALLING THE XTRA ON MAC OS 8 AND 9 - Director 8.5

Running under OSX, double-click the installation .dmg file. This will mount a disk named "Mpeg Advance Xtra" on your desktop. To install the Xtra just copy the file "Mpeg Advance Xtra" from the Mac Classic folder to the Xtras folder of your Director 8.5 installation. The final pathname for the Xtra will be for example:

Macintosh HD:OS9 Applications:Macromedia Director 8.5:Xtras:Mpeg Advance Xtra

Finally, you need to edit the xtrainfo.txt file to include information about Mpeg Advance Xtra. The xtrainfo.txt file is located in the directory where Director 8.5 was installed, for example at:

Macintosh HD:OS9 Applications:Macromedia Director 8.5:xtrainfo.txt

Double click the file to open it in SimpleText, or another editor capable of saving plain text files. You need to add the following line to the end of the file:

[#namePPC:"Mpeg Advance Xtra", #nameW32:"MpegAdvance.x32"]

Restart Director for the changes to take effect. The Xtra should be listed when you issue the command "put the xtralist" in the message window.