quicktime

Quicktime Javascript interface within Iframe throws an errors.

I'm using Apple's provided AC_QuickTime.js to generate the object tag for embedding a quicktime object. I then assign that to a div's innerHTML property. This is done in the global scope as the page loads due to errors encountered on doing it in the window load event. Finally in the window load event I call play on the object (acquired v...

QuickTime movie controller handler in C#

Hi, It took me some time figuring out how to embed QuickTime player in a C# application. When I was very happy about my success the spcifications changed to have custom controls (and not those from Apple QuickTime Control 2.0) for our player. I searched a lot for examples or documentation but, as usual, there is none from Apple. I t...

QTMovie pauses on minimize?

I'm trying to create a video player that plays in the dock when minimized. I'm grabbing the current frame from the QTMovie and intermittently setting it as the minimized icon, but when the window minimizes, the movie (or associated QTMovieView) pauses. How can I prevent this behavior? ...

64-bit Quicktime Question

Does anyone out there know if there is a way to pull raw, still-compressed audio and video samples out of a Quicktime .mov file using an Apple API / Framework targeting the Mac that can be compiled natively in 64-bit (IE: QTKit)? I know this functionality is available in Apple's QuickTime Framework that targets the Mac, but this Framewor...

Properly dispose QuickTime control

Hi, I'm currently developing an application for Windows platform that will be able to play Quick Time videos. The targeted OS versions are Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. I successfully used the Apple ActiveX QuickTime Control 2.0 (in C#) and everything works well on Windows XP. However, on Vista and Windows 7 I'm facing prob...

QuickTime movie disappearing from Javascript when scrolled offscreen in non-Safari Mac browsers?

I have a web page I'm creating that uses Javascript to control an embedded QuickTime player. I add the QuickTime movie to the page using the AC_QuickTime.js file from Apple (as described here - http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/QuickTime/Conceptual/QTScripting_HTML/QTScripting_HTML_Document/ScriptingHTML.html#//apple_r...

PHP detecting if flash is installed

Hi, is it possible to detect if flash is installed using PHP. My aim is, that if it is installed it will play a flv file, and if not it will use another player eg; quicktime? If it is possible how do I go about doing it? Thanks Tom ...

Streaming quicktime to iPhone/iPod Touch

Hi is it possible to stream "hinted movies" on a darwin streaming server to the iPhone if not, what settings are best to do this? Thanks Tom ...

H264 RTP packet dump and generating quicktime files

Hi, I have a dump of RTP packets of streaming H264 videos that i captured using libpcap. I was wondering if anyone knows of a tool that can generate a playable video file from that. Thanks ...

Can you enable hardware acceleration with the Quicktime API on Windows?

Using the Quicktime API on Windows, there doesn't seem to be any API exposed to enable hardware acceleration. If you open movies with the Quicktime app, DirectX acceleration can be enabled by use of the GUI under the Edit/Preferences/QuickTime Preferences/Advanced Tab. Is it possible to pass a DirectX surface or similar to get H/W accele...

Play Video on Mobile Safari for iPod touch

I have a web site that opens iframe for video on page, page uses ajax to pull in videos from selected menu. As expected and understood, on iPod touch after selecting video it shows a play button, which brings up video in another screen. However, when the video completes, it returns browser to page prior to one where video was played from...

Invoking play on a QTMovie causes screensaver to deactivate on Snow Leopard

I'm trying to port a working Leopard screensaver to Snow Leopard but it's deactivating after about half a second. The screensaver seems to deactivate upon invoking play on a QTMovie. And it deactivates both upon -play on the QTMovie object itself, and -play:self on the QTMovieView. If I don't actually call -play on the object, the scree...

getting sound on .asf video on Mac OS X

When I try to open the following video: http://streaming1.hss-win.rpi.edu/ondemand/cogsci/issues_in_cs/issues_in_cogsci_02_04_2009.asf I can get it but without any sound... I tried it both inside the browser (Firefox) and in QuickTime Media player but still it does not work. Any idea how to get this to work on Mac OS X? Using version ...

Creating reference movies for iPhone on the fly

We are working on an online mobile video app. The videos we want to play on mobile phones are being generated by a server, as there can be dynamic content in the server (based on user input). Now for iPhone we would like to play the video in the best possible resolution based on the connection speed at the time of downloading the movi...

Vibrations when exploding/repacking movie

Please bear with me, I know that what I'm doing can sound strange, but I can guarantee there's a very good reason for that. I took a movie with my camera, as avi. I imported the movie into iMovie and then exploded the single frames as PNG. Then I repacked these frames into mov using the following code movie, error = QTMovie.alloc().ini...

Takes long to load hidden Quicktime embeds

I have about 5 Quicktime movies that I hide with jQuery when the site first loads. I noticed when I put the site online that when I open the site it takes 5-10 seconds to show any content. Sometimes I even get a "beach ball" cursor as if the browser is frozen. It's not like all the videos need to be preloaded before the site can load, ...

Is it possible to render QuickTime movies on iPhone OS?

Any methods would be useful! (to clarify: by render, I mean create, not playback) ...

Concatenating a folder of quicktime files together.

I know on my linux box I can use: cat file1.mov file2.mv file3.mov > combined.mov But in OSX this doesn't seem to work. Only the file1.mov is combined. Any work arounds for OSX? Thanks ...

How can I initialize a QTMovie object with certain attributes using writable data?

I'm trying to create an empty QTMovie object that I can add segments to, and then play. This is easy to do with something like: movie = [[QTMovie alloc] initToWritableData:[NSMutableData dataWithCapacity:1048576] error:&error]; I can then use -insertSegmentOfMovie to insert segments from other movies into this one so I can play it bac...

Quicktime on iPhone

Hey there! May I know if the videos played via quicktime through safari are saved in the iPhone? If they are may I know where to find them? ...