quicktime

Custom background using Quicktime Plugin to play video... Possible?

I want an efficient way to send clients a link to see a video that I have stored on my webhost and this causes the video to open in the quicktime plugin. This is boring. Can I change the background color or even add a logo? If so, where is this done? ...

playing streamed content in an app

I have a number of music tracks which I would like the user to be able to preview a small clip of each. These tracks are on a server. How is media streamed into the app and which player is used? Can a custom player be created to play the clips within the view, without e.g. quicktime player opening? Thanks ...

QuickTime MOV embedded in HTML page: Can't get controls to appear

Video plays fine, but the controls (play, stop, rewind etc.) don't appear, despite setting the "controller" parameter to "true". <object classid="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" codebase="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab" width="320" height="260"> <param name="src" value="myvid.mov" /> <param name="controller" val...

Javascript not recognizing Quicktime movie object

Hello i'm trying to play just the first few seconds on a quicktime movie then stop. if the user scrolls, I replay - Im doing this to reshow the image that seems to go away when scrolling. By design, once the user clicks 'Play' I want the movie to disregard the scroll (and other) functions. This seems to work in FF, but not in IE, where t...

How can I create a QuickTime reference movie (.mov)?

I'd like to generate QuickTime Reference Movies from code (preferably PHP). The only way I've been able to do this so far is to "save for web" from QuickTime but that re-encodes everything. If I already have the files encoded (using ffmpeg or whatever) I'd prefer to avoid having to do that again just to create what is more or less a play...

Having trouble setting up mediastreamsegmenter on Mac OS X 10.6

Hello, I'm trying to use Mac OS X 10.6's mediastreamsegmenter to take the audio input of my mac and turn it into a stream that I could listen to on the iPhone. I've read this and the related man page: http://devworld.apple.com/library/ios/#technotes/tn2010/tn2224.html#MEDIASTREAMSEGMENTER but when I do something like this: mediastre...

Use Quicktime to covert an audio file from AAC to AC3 via CLI?

Basically I want to use Quicktime to convert an audio file from AAC to AC3, I thought I might be able to use Quicktime? But I can't seem to be able to find the CLI command for it. ...

play quicktime in safari on the iphone

Sorry - can't find any ref anywhere for this. Is it possible to play quicktime on a safari page on the iphone without it going to the video player? Client wants other items on the page to be viewable whilw video is playing. Many thanks & if so any ref would be great... best, Dan. ...

QTMovie setRate problems

Hi everyone! I'm working on a program prototype that (at the current stage) just needs to be able to load a movie and adjust the playback speed. I have the UI worked out, I've gotten the playback to work, but I haven't managed to figure out how to adjust the playback speed. I believed that -[QTMovie setRate:(float)] was the way to do t...

Video: Embed a RTSP 3GP Quicktime seems to be impossible

Situation: I want to embed this stream in my website: rtsp://v8.cache2.c.youtube.com/CiQLENy73wIaGwnUg6yvPB1bKxMYESARFEgGUghzdGFuZGFyZAw=/0/0/0/video.3gp Problem: All my tries to embed fail, only Quicktime logo shows up. Code: <object height="200" width="400" codebase="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab" classid="clsid:02BF25...

Movie control Package

Hi every body, i have a simple Java off-line application that it has to show and control a movie .... What is the package and classes that contain the methods that do such tasks?! i expect the existence like the following methods : 1) void PlayMovie(); // to play the movie... 2) void PlayMovie(int Time); // to play the movie startin...

How to convert CVPixelBufferRef from kCVPixelFormatType_32ARGB to kCVPixelFormatType_24RGB

I'm a new Apple developer and I'm struggling with the different image representations... I would Have a CVPixelBufferRef in kCVPixelFormatType_32ARGB format, and I would like to create a new kCVPixelFormatType_24RGB CVPixelBufferRef from it (i.e. discarding the alpha bits). Is there a simple way to do it, or do I have to copy it with ...

quicktime mute all files droplet

Want an applescript droplet that opens files in QuickTime and mutes them all. The script only mutes the front most opened file. on open the_Droppings tell application "QuickTime Player 7" to activate tell application "QuickTime Player 7" to open the_Droppings tell application "System Events" to tell process "QuickTime Player...

Flash ActiveX API documentation?

I am trying to put a Flash ActiveX control into a Windows Form but I am running into a problem: a lack of documentation. The best I have found is a site called "F-IN-BOX" that has some documentation but much of the API is still a black box. For example, some property will take an integer or a string and provide no clue about what it wa...

How do I embed wmv/mpg/avi/mov/etc videos reliably?

I am trying to embed video files (wmv, mpg, avi, mov, etc.) dynamically by creating embed elements in javascript. The problem I am running in to is this has not been very reliable across all browsers and even if it does work, there is no guarantee that the end user has the required plugin to play the video. Ideally, I would convert every...

Setting privacy control for the files to be played in embedded Quicktime player

Hello, I tried to find the player to play gsm file on my site. After searching on google, it seems quicktime player is the only ready to use player available. However, I have to provide the location of the gsm file to the quicktime plugin in order for it to play. I worry about the security issue that may cause by this since some files a...

Change Soundtrack properties in QT 7 pro - Batch with applescript

I need to change the soundtrack properties (movie properties tool in QT 7 pro) for a whole bunch of video files. The process would be: in movie properties click on sound track and then change the assignment of each audio channel from Mono to "center" save the file(s) I am completely unexperienced with Applescript but would it be possibl...

Rendering text animations into a video file in Cocoa

Hello Everyone, I am after the following functionality in an app I am scoping. A user has the option to enter some set of text that will be overlaid onto a video file as animated text. In other words, the application is bundled with a stock version of the video containing no text, and the custom text entered by the user is used to rende...

Quicktime video appearing over Fixed DIV

I have an embedded quicktime video that is appearing over a fixed Div. I wrapped them both in DIVS with correct z-indexes, not working. How do I get the video under the div (position: fixed;)? ... Oh, and the problem is only occurring in Safari. ...