quicktime

Quicktime Directshow Filters

Hello, I'm looking into DirectShow Source Filters for playing QuickTime media. Can anyone who has been down the same path offer any advice? I've tested offerings from MediaLooks and RogueStream. Are there any others I should check out? Are there any free or open source alternatives? Thanks, ...

What is does this error mean when trying to import video in processing?

quicktime.qdQDException[QTJava:7.6.6g], -3954=Unknown Error Code, QT.vers:7668000 I'm using osx.... is video processing inherently slow in processing? It's really choppy. Would it be faster if done in Max? ...

Load testing a quicktime streaming server from ubuntu machine

I have software that can launch and control multiple firefox browsers on Ubuntu EC2 images. I need to run a small load test against a QuickTime Streaming server. The stream starts automatically when loaded in a browser that has the QuickTime plugin, so I don't need to automate the stream once it starts. Alternately, I can also make th...

How to fire a Javascript function when a QuickTime movie has finished playing?

When a Quicktime movie has ended, I want to replace it with a image slideshow. My current approach is to have the .mov file communicate back to the Javascript on the page. Once the end of the movie is reached, an event calls a function. So my question is: What method can I use to call a Javascript function when a Quicktime movie ends? ...

generating MIDI in javascript

I'd like to generate a sequence of MIDI notes in javascript and then play it. Many plugins support MIDI, but I'm not aware of any supporting "data:" URL. Generating MIDI content is not a big deal - but feeding this content into player is. Anyone knows how this can be done - if not in general, then at least for specific plugin like QuickT...

Embedded quicktime video pause on click how to prevent?

I embedded a quicktime video in firefox. It works, but i would like to prevent the users to stop the video by clicking on it with the left mouse button. Reading the apple documentation i didn't find any answear. I came up with a workaround, i just put an almost invisible div over the whole video. The workaround works in firefox for os X,...

Quicktime logo! Can it be hidden / disabled?

Hi there, just wondering if it is possible to hide/disable the quicktime logo when displaying .MOV video on my site? Because the size of the video is large (3MB), I have included a rotating loading animation, however once the video player loads, the Quicktime logo hides the animation, which makes the user less likely in my opinion to wa...

Pre-load audio files at the client-side for later use

I'm building an online test which implements audio (mp3) using the native audio player (i.e. non Flash-based). The test shows one question at a time and loads each subsequent question asynchronously. Some questions have an accompanying audio file, others don't, and the audio files can be several MB in size. So what I'm hoping to do is...

Jump to next page with qt_writeobject (embeded quicktime)

Hi Im trying to script a website that will play a video, and when the video is done it should redirect to another page. However the instructions on apples website wont match. Any tips? Here is some of the code. <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"> QT_WriteOBJECT('<?php echo $play_me; ?>','<?php echo $moduleWidth ...

How can I eliminate latency in quicktime streamed video

I'm prototyping a client that displays streaming video from a HaiVision Barracuda through a quicktime client. I've been unable to reduce the buffer size below 3.0 seconds... for this application, we need as low a latency as the network allows, and prefer video dropouts to delay. I'm doing the following: - (void)applicationDidFinishLau...

IE browser script to determine which (if any) ActiveX control will handle specific mime type

I'm trying to figure out in an IE script (javascript or vbscript) which ActiveX control will handle a specific mime type, "image/tiff" in this case. This is easy to do in other browsers that use plugins with; navigator.mimeTypes["image/tiff"].enabledPlugin.name which would return something like QuickTime Plug-in X.X.X I've fo...

Capture iPhone camera using QuickTime

Can I capture audio and video signals from iPhone's camera and microphone in a web application using QuickTime ? If not, does exist any other method in which I can capture the video and audio from iPhone cam & mic. from a web app. and not an iPhone native app.? Thanks ...

How do I cause the controller buttons to display for an Apple Quicktime video embedded in Firefox?

I am trying to embed a Quicktime video in Firefox, but when I do the controller buttons do not appear. I've tried both the old style embed tag and the new style object tags, but when I set the "controller" option to true there is no change in the appearance of the plugin. The video loads, but it is zoomed in on some portion of the vide...

get audio track layout of QuickTime movie

I need to determine how many channels a sound track has in a QuickTime movie. I can get to the track, then I am stuck. I wonder if the answer would be in a QTFormatDescription, but I can't figure out how to get one for the track. I am using Objective-C on Mac OS 10.6. ...

using Applescript to retrieve movie file duration via Finder properties

When using Get Info on movie files in the Finder, I've noticed that many movie files have an accessible "Duration" property under the More Info tab. Is there an easy way to access this data using Applescript? I've tried lines like "set theTime to (duration of aFile)", but it doesn't seem to be as simple as that. Ideally I'd like to acce...

QTKit Capture API: How to implement video screen recording (as in Quicktime X Player)?

Does the QTKit Capture API support screen recording- i.e., can I specify the current screen output as the input source to record? If so, how? Quicktime Player X supports screen recording, yet the QTKit Capture API Documentation only mentions capturing from external cameras. ...

Can JavaScript listen for state changes from a QuickTime object embedded in a web page?

I'm attempting to control a QuickTime object that I have embedded into a webpage using JavaScript, and want to listen to and react to the DOM events that the object throws. Apple has published a tutorial on the matter that doesn't seem to work at all. The code that I made using their documentation is as follows: $(document).ready( funct...

Embedding a Quicktime movie with starttime param

Hi! I am looking to embed a Quicktime with dynamically created starttime and endtime. This all works fine, however the Quicktime movie starts caching from the very beginning of the movie instead of from the starttime. Is there any way to get QT to cache from the starttime? Much appreciated! Frank ...

Embedding Flash & Quicktime Via JavaScript

I have a JavaScript function that loads a flash movie into a webpage div using swfobject.embedSWF(). I want to be able to, alternatively, load a .mov file into the same div, in the event that this is the file found instead of the .swf. Is there a close equivalent to swfobject.embedSWF for the purposes of embedding a .mov file? If not,...

A posterframe created with PHP won't work.

I am using PHP to create a poster frame for the Quicktime plugin, and all I am getting is Quicktime's broken plugin icon. I am positive that the URL is correct. (a copy-paste to the URL box works) The HTTP content-type header is equal to "image/jpeg". Does anyone have any ideas? ...