BorlandTalk.com Borland discussion newsgroups   Archives   FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  How to play MOV video clips using TMediaPlayer?          BorlandTalk.com Forum Index -> Delphi Multimedia View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message Raymond Kennington Guest Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 9:51 pm    Post subject: How to play MOV video clips using TMediaPlayer? I've installed the latest QuickTime viewer, so I expected the required drivers to be installed. Windows Media Player doesn't recognise the file type, but it offers to try to play it anyway - and presto, it plays. Delphi 7's TMediaPlayer still does not recognise the file type. Is there a way to force TMediaPlayer to play a QuickTime .MOV file? I've tried using DSPack to play a MOV file, and it works to a degree. I cannot get it to move one frame backward/forward on the development pc. One the user pc, it always shows the ClipDuration to be zero. Playing works, but other positioning does not work. This was based on the PlayWin demo. For something so common, it should be easy. Could someone provide me with precise steps how to make it possible to use Delphi 7 to play MOV files at various speeds, move to beginning and end, and step forward/backward one frame? Thanks, Raymond. Back to top Warrick Wilson Guest Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 12:38 am    Post subject: Re: How to play MOV video clips using TMediaPlayer? "Raymond Kennington" <raymondwk (AT) dot (DOT) dot.dot.com> wrote in message news:45fc1951$1 (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com... Quote: I've installed the latest QuickTime viewer, so I expected the required drivers to be installed. Windows Media Player doesn't recognise the file type, but it offers to try to play it anyway - and presto, it plays. Do you have something like Quicktime Alternative also loaded? I've not run across WMP playing recently produced Quicktime files without some extra "wedge" like Quicktime Alternative, or the filter that Medialooks.com makes available. Something to bring Quicktime into the DirectShow world. Quote: Delphi 7's TMediaPlayer still does not recognise the file type. Is there a way to force TMediaPlayer to play a QuickTime .MOV file? I don't think so... Quote: I've tried using DSPack to play a MOV file, and it works to a degree. I cannot get it to move one frame backward/forward on the development pc. One the user pc, it always shows the ClipDuration to be zero. Playing works, but other positioning does not work. This was based on the PlayWin demo. This makes me think you've got something special on your dev PC. Did you install something like the K-Lite Codec Pack on that machine? Quote: For something so common, it should be easy. You and me both wish this, but it ain't...Quicktime is Apple, and Microsoft isn't, and there's politics, egos and money involved. So there's not much cooperation and doing things like this ends up being hard. Quote: Could someone provide me with precise steps how to make it possible to use Delphi 7 to play MOV files at various speeds, move to beginning and end, and step forward/backward one frame? I'm not sure that this will be possible using Windows Media Player or DSPack. You might, however, look at embedding the Quicktime ActiveX Control into a form and dealing with that. I'm doing a variant on that, since I ran into some stability problems with what I was trying, and I'm only playing the files at normal speed. There's a book by John Cromie called "QuickTime for .NET and COM Developers" that shows how to do most of what you ask (though in VB or C#, but the translation to Delphi wouldn't be too hard). Back to top Raymond Kennington Guest Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 6:32 am    Post subject: Re: How to play MOV video clips using TMediaPlayer? Warrick Wilson wrote: Quote: "Raymond Kennington" <raymondwk (AT) dot (DOT) dot.dot.com> wrote in message news:45fc1951$1 (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com... I've installed the latest QuickTime viewer, so I expected the required drivers to be installed. Windows Media Player doesn't recognise the file type, but it offers to try to play it anyway - and presto, it plays. Do you have something like Quicktime Alternative also loaded? I've not run across WMP playing recently produced Quicktime files without some extra "wedge" like Quicktime Alternative, or the filter that Medialooks.com makes available. Something to bring Quicktime into the DirectShow world. The .MOV files currently being played were created in 1997. Quote: Delphi 7's TMediaPlayer still does not recognise the file type. Is there a way to force TMediaPlayer to play a QuickTime .MOV file? I don't think so... I've tried using DSPack to play a MOV file, and it works to a degree. I cannot get it to move one frame backward/forward on the development pc. One the user pc, it always shows the ClipDuration to be zero. Playing works, but other positioning does not work. This was based on the PlayWin demo. This makes me think you've got something special on your dev PC. Did you install something like the K-Lite Codec Pack on that machine? I've installed so many things, like a Panasonic video reader, google video player, plusdeck2 and realplayer reader, and others. Quote: For something so common, it should be easy. You and me both wish this, but it ain't...Quicktime is Apple, and Microsoft isn't, and there's politics, egos and money involved. So there's not much cooperation and doing things like this ends up being hard. Could someone provide me with precise steps how to make it possible to use Delphi 7 to play MOV files at various speeds, move to beginning and end, and step forward/backward one frame? I'm not sure that this will be possible using Windows Media Player or DSPack. You might, however, look at embedding the Quicktime ActiveX Control into a form and dealing with that. I'm doing a variant on that, since I ran into some stability problems with what I was trying, and I'm only playing the files at normal speed. There's a book by John Cromie called "QuickTime for .NET and COM Developers" that shows how to do most of what you ask (though in VB or C#, but the translation to Delphi wouldn't be too hard). Thank you for the info and the 'hard' facts. Raymond. Back to top Mark Jacobs Guest Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 10:00 pm    Post subject: Re: How to play MOV video clips using TMediaPlayer? This is from my web page at http://www.jacobsm.com/mjsoft.htm#mjplyr :- If you can't, you'll need to add a couple of strings to the registry at location HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\MCI Extensions. I added strings called mov, rm, and ram, and set their strings to MPEGVideo. The player will now play these extra formats and you no longer need Quicktime player with its iPod adornments, or Real Player with its snoopy habits. HTH, -- Mark Jacobs www.jacobsm.com Back to top Raymond Kennington Guest Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 4:43 am    Post subject: Re: How to play MOV video clips using TMediaPlayer? Mark Jacobs wrote: Quote: This is from my web page at http://www.jacobsm.com/mjsoft.htm#mjplyr :- If you can't, you'll need to add a couple of strings to the registry at location HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\MCI Extensions. I added strings called mov, rm, and ram, and set their strings to MPEGVideo. The player will now play these extra formats and you no longer need Quicktime player with its iPod adornments, or Real Player with its snoopy habits. HTH, Thanks, Mark. I've added the HKLM\... item above, but WMP still states it doesn't recognise it. Do I need to install a codec? I've sent you a message via your web page. Raymond. Back to top Mark Jacobs Guest Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 4:41 pm    Post subject: Re: How to play MOV video clips using TMediaPlayer? "Raymond Kennington" <raymondwk (AT) dot (DOT) dot.dot.com> wrote in message news:45fdcb5d (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com... Quote: Thanks, Mark. I've added the HKLM\... item above, but WMP still states it doesn't recognise it. Do I need to install a codec? OK. I'd suggest now that we download Quicktime Alternative (latest version) and install that. Get version 1.78 from http://home.hccnet.nl/h.edskes/mirror.htm - install it and reboot your PC. If these MOVs still won't play after that, email one to me at mark 'at' jacobsm 'dot' com and I'll see what I can "discover" about it! Regards, -- Mark Jacobs DK Computing http://www.dkcomputing.co.uk Back to top Warrick Wilson Guest Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 11:44 pm    Post subject: Re: How to play MOV video clips using TMediaPlayer? "Mark Jacobs" <mark (AT) jacobsm (DOT) com> wrote in message news:45fd7025$1 (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com... Quote: This is from my web page at http://www.jacobsm.com/mjsoft.htm#mjplyr :- If you can't, you'll need to add a couple of strings to the registry at location HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\MCI Extensions. I added strings called mov, rm, and ram, and set their strings to MPEGVideo. The player will now play these extra formats and you no longer need Quicktime player with its iPod adornments, or Real Player with its snoopy habits. When you say "player", do you mean your mjplayer, or is Wndows Media Player (10 or 11 in my case, on a couple of different machines) going to pick those up too? In a later message, you suggest installing Quicktime Alternative - do you have that installed for your system that you're referencing? Or were the instructions above meant to work without QA? Thanks. Back to top Mark Jacobs Guest Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 12:59 am    Post subject: Re: How to play MOV video clips using TMediaPlayer? "Warrick Wilson" <warrickw (AT) mercuryonline (DOT) com> wrote in message news:45feda1d$1 (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com... Quote: When you say "player", do you mean your mjplayer, or is Wndows Media Player (10 or 11 in my case, on a couple of different machines) going to pick those up too? After installing QA and then adding those keys, I can play all sorts of .mov files inside WMP11. Quote: In a later message, you suggest installing Quicktime Alternative - do you have that installed for your system that you're referencing? Or were the instructions above meant to work without QA? You either need QA installed or Quicktime itself, for those keys to work. However, I do not know whether you can play .movs under wmp with Quicktime itself, rather than QA. I also recommend Real Alternative for playing Real Media files. -- Mark Jacobs www.jacobsm.com Back to top Raymond Kennington Guest Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 4:48 pm    Post subject: Re: How to play MOV video clips using TMediaPlayer? Mark Jacobs wrote: Quote: "Warrick Wilson" <warrickw (AT) mercuryonline (DOT) com> wrote in message news:45feda1d$1 (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com... When you say "player", do you mean your mjplayer, or is Wndows Media Player (10 or 11 in my case, on a couple of different machines) going to pick those up too? After installing Quicktime Alternative, WMP plays the files without questioning if should try. This is progress. Quote: After installing QA and then adding those keys, I can play all sorts of .mov files inside WMP11. Me too. Quote: In a later message, you suggest installing Quicktime Alternative - do you have that installed for your system that you're referencing? Or were the instructions above meant to work without QA? Now using TMEdiaPlayer in Delphi, the clip plays well. However, it still does not move to beginning/end or step, even though the buttons on TMediaPlayer are active. Strangely, it plays a video on the user pc, but on my dev pc it states that it doesn't know what type it is. Quote: You either need QA installed or Quicktime itself, for those keys to work. However, I do not know whether you can play .movs under wmp with Quicktime itself, rather than QA. I also recommend Real Alternative for playing Real Media files. Now the latest QT and QA have been installed without there being a noticeable improvement. Raymond. Back to top Mark Jacobs Guest Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 6:36 pm    Post subject: Re: How to play MOV video clips using TMediaPlayer? "Raymond Kennington" <raymondwk (AT) dot (DOT) dot.dot.com> wrote in message news:45ffc69b$1 (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com... Quote: Now using TMEdiaPlayer in Delphi, the clip plays well. However, it still does not move to beginning/end or step, even though the buttons on TMediaPlayer are active. The buttons will not work properly on MOVs, QTs, RAMs, RMs, and certain DivX encodings. No great shakes though, 'cos they don't work in Media Player Classic either on those file types. On-the-fly decompressed file types make it difficult to decide where in the file the data is coming from when seeking to a different part of the movie. -- Mark Jacobs www.jacobsm.com Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First         BorlandTalk.com Forum Index -> Delphi Multimedia All times are GMT Page 1 of 1   Jump to: Select a forum C++ Builder Newsgroups----------------C++ BuilderC++ Builder (ActiveX)C++ Builder (Announcements)C++ Builder (Command Line Tools)C++ Builder DatabasesC++ Builder Databases (ADO)C++ Builder Databases (Desktop)C++ Builder Databases (InterBase Express)C++ Builder Databases (Multi-Tier)C++ Builder Databases (SQL Servers)C++ Builder (Graphics)C++ Builder (IDE)C++ Builder (Internet)C++ Builder (Internet Socket)C++ Builder (Internet Web)C++ Builder (Jobs)C++ Builder (Language)C++ Builder (Language C++)C++ Builder (Compatibility with MFC)C++ Builder (Native API)C++ Builder (Non-Technical)C++ Builder (Students)C++ Builder (Third Party Tools)C++ Builder (Upgrade)C++ Builder (VCL)C++ Builder (VCL Components Usage)C++ Builder (VCL Components Development)C++ Builder (VCL Usage)C++ Builder (WinAPI)C++ Builder Installation Delphi Newsgroups----------------Delphi (General)Delphi ActiveX Controls UsageDelphi ActiveX Controls DevelopmentDelphi As400Delphi DatabasesDelphi Databases (ADO)Delphi Databases (dbExpress)Delphi Databases (Desktop)Delphi Databases (InterBase Express)Delphi Databases (Multi-Tier)Delphi Databases (SQL Servers)Delphi DeploymentDelphi GraphicsDelphi IDEDelphi InternationalizationDelphi InternetDelphi Internet Isapi-WebBrokerDelphi Internet WebSnapDelphi Internet WinsockDelphi JobsDelphi Language BASMDelphi Language ObjectPascalDelphi Model Driven Architecture (General)Delphi Model Driven Architecture (Third Party)Delphi MultimediaDelphi Native APIDelphi Non-TechnicalDelphi ObjectPascalDelphi OLE AutomationDelphi OO designDelphi OpenToolsAPIDelphi Reporting-ChartingDelphi RTLDelphi StudentsDelphi TeamSourceDelphi Thirdparty ToolsDelphi Thirdparty Tools (General)Delphi Thirdparty Tools (IntraWeb)Delphi Thirdparty Tools (RaveReports)Delphi UpgradeDelphi VCLDelphi VCL ComponentsDelphi VCL Components UsingDelphi VCL Components WritingDelphi WebServices SOAPDelphi WinAPIDelphi XMLDelphi Installationcomp.lang.pascal.delphi.components.misccomp.lang.pascal.delphi.components.usagecomp.lang.pascal.delphi.components.writingcomp.lang.pascal.delphi.databasescomp.lang.pascal.delphi.misccomp.sources.delphi JBuilder Newsgroups----------------JBuilderJBuilder AnnouncementsJBuilder Applet IssuesJBuilder As400JBuilder CompilerJBuilder CORBA/RMIJBuilder DatabasesJBuilder DB SwingJBuilder DebuggerJBuilder DeploymentJBuilder DocumentationJBuilder EnterpriseJBuilder HandheldJBuilder IDEJBuilder JavaJBuilder JavaAPIJBuilder Java LanguageJBuilder Java SwingJBuilder Java BeansJBuilder Java Beans UsageJBuilder Java Beans DevelopmentJBuilder JBCLJBuilder JDataStoreJBuilder JobsJBuilder LinuxJBuilder MacintoshJBuilder & MobileSetJBuilder MultiLingual AppsJBuilder Non-TechnicalJBuilder OpenToolsJBuilder Servlets (JSP)JBuilder StudentsJBuilder Team DevelopmentJBuilder Thirdparty ToolsJBuilder UpgradeJBuilder Installation InterBase Newsgroups----------------InterBaseInterBase Bug DiscussionInterBase GeneralInterBase IBConsoleInterBase OpenSourceInterBase ReplicationInterBase SQLInterBase ThirdpartyInterBase Installation Miscellaneous Borland Newsgroups----------------AppCenterAppServerEnteraVisiBroker  You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2006 phpBB Group SEO toolkit © 2004-2006 webmedic.