DrawMovie() flaw??? whats going on?

@all
I am using OpenMovie() to open an animated .GIF animation. All is fine, the animated gif loads, plays with DrawMovie() then plays and plays and plays until it then STOPS??? out of nowhere, after say 5 minutes, the animation just STOPS??? and vanishes from the screen???

any clues???

no one??? that's unusual for this forum :-( ???

ALSO, why do I NEED to use the GRAPHICS() command before even using Openmovie() with a .GIF??? when DrawMovie() is used to activate the animated .GIF??

Please advise!

Never used the DrawMovie() myself.
But the Graphics() command is used for the resolution i guess...

I think you always need the Graphics() command unless its an included .bb-file with only variables.

http://www.blitzbasic.com/bpdocs/command.php?name=DrawMovie&ref=2d_cat