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Re: Playing a movie without a MoviePlayer control on a window

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Subject: Re: Playing a movie without a MoviePlayer control on a window
From: dda <headspin at gmail dot com>
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 17:12:18 +0100
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Okay, I'll bite. Why? If you want to play a movie inside an RB app, well...
If you don't mind playing it outside the app, there are solutions, but
they involve external apps, like mplayer [which is available on all 3
platforms, and can be called from a shell class].

But the question remains... Why? Oh Why?


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On 12/27/05, Bryan Lund <bryan at radicalbreeze dot com> wrote:
> Does anyone know of a way to play a quicktime movie without an instance
> of the MoviePlayer control being on an actual window?
>
> A MoviePlayer as a variable doesn't actually play the movie.  Ex:
>
>    theMoviePlayer = new MoviePlayer
>    theMoviePlayer.Movie = f.OpenAsMovie
>    theMoviePlayer.play
>
> Results in the movie not playing.  Though no error is thrown.
>
> And, of course, the "Movie" class doesn't provide any functions for
> playback.
>
> I can kinda cheat with an EditableMovie and grab the picture from each
> position I want on a timer or something... but that only helps for video
> only... no audio.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks!
> -Bryan
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