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Wondering if this a bug or a feature, for would have expected same sound files to work on all platforms.

Trying to load MP3 as a sample in Mac didn't work but gave an error of "Cannot load audio stream as a sample!"

This same MP3 did work on Windows just fine. So is this a bug or a feature, I can send you the sample to email if you need to check it out better.

Hollywood documentation tells:
"Sample formats that are supported on all platforms are RIFF WAVE, IFF 8SVX, IFF 16SV, and sample formats you have a plugin for. Depending on the platform Hollywood is running on, more sample formats might be supported."

So, the MP3 format isn't something that has a built-in support in Hollywood, and it's been experienced earlier that MP3 files may work in different way depending on the underlying OS.

A solution is to use the AVCodec plugin to load MP3 files to get coherent experience on all platforms.

Thanks! This is good to know. Never noticed this before, always assumed MP3 was supposed to work on all platforms similarly.