Quicktime *.mov files with Delphi
Philippe Michel
If there is no component, how can i use the runtime Quicktime player
within my Delphi applications ?
Thanks and Hello from Belgium to all Delphi programmers.
Stefan Hoffmeister
It is possible to play back QuickTime movies using the TMediaplayer
component coming with Delphi.
You will have to set the .devicetype to autodetect and assign to
filename to something like "mymovie.mov" - the extension is what lets
the media player - and in effect the MCI - determine that you want to
play a QuickTime movie.
As a precondition you will have to have installed the QuickTime MCI
drivers which are (to my knowledge always) installed if you run
anything that uses/used QuickTime.
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WARNING: DO NOT TRY PLAYING QUICKTIME MOVIES FROM WITHIN THE IDE (see
below).
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I would be most grateful if you could do it anyway ;-) (after!
having read the posting I recently made and have attached to this
mail/posting) just to verify whether this happens only on my machine
or on other peoples' machines as well. (I am prepared to send/post a
tiny app that causes the problem - you just need a movie to find out).
Hope that helps
Stefan
Stefan.Ho...@Uni-Passau.de
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Hi all,
I had a bit of trouble recently while developing a tiny video player.
The problem occurs ONLY when starting the program from the IDE and
NEVER when it is started from the file manager.
If you start from the IDE everything runs and stops fine, but DO NOT
TRY to use the task manager to switch anywhere else afterwards. Your
*WHOLE* system will die - no recovery possible.
Reason: The task manager crashes in module "QTNOTIFY.EXE" which is
part of QuickTime for Windows
The Delphi IDE somehow causes the problem because QTNOTIFY.EXE does
not get unloaded from memory when I close the media player (which does
happen when the program is started from the file manager).
Is there anybody out there who could reproduce this problem? Simply
take the media player application which comes with the Delphi
Developers Guide...
I am using QuickTime for Windows 2.01.
Best regards
Stefan
Jumpstile Turner
says...
>
>Is there a comonent that allows Delphi to play Quicktime Movie file.
>If there is no component, how can i use the runtime Quicktime player
>within my Delphi applications ?
>
>Thanks and Hello from Belgium to all Delphi programmers.
>
I don't know if this works under Delphi as I haven't tried it
personally, but under Visual Basic 3.0 you can use the QTW.VBX as a
component. It works great this way. I wrote a quick program to play
.AVI, and .MOV files when I first messed around with VB. THen I got smart
and bought a copy of Delphi. ;)
-Scott
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Mark Alexander
>In article <433snb$1i...@aix1.segi.ulg.ac.be>, phmi...@vm1.ulg.ac.be
>says...
>>
>>Is there a comonent that allows Delphi to play Quicktime Movie file.
>>If there is no component, how can i use the runtime Quicktime player
>>within my Delphi applications ?
>>
>>Thanks and Hello from Belgium to all Delphi programmers.
>>
> I don't know if this works under Delphi as I haven't tried it
>personally, but under Visual Basic 3.0 you can use the QTW.VBX as a
>component. It works great this way. I wrote a quick program to play
>.AVI, and .MOV files when I first messed around with VB. THen I got smart
>and bought a copy of Delphi. ;)
> -Scott
I recently installed Quicktime 2.00 and lo, and behold, in my Windows
directory is qtmovie.pas and qtmove.dcr. I haven't had a chance to
look at it (and probably won't), but you may want to look at it.
Mark