Playing a QuickTime Movie in Cocoa

[rhale1]

I want a quicktime movie to play in a window I have. How would I tell Cocoa to display the movie?

 

[Hamish]

Use an NSMovieView. Mind you, NSMovieView is a buggy piece of sh**, but so far as I know it's the best way to do it. I'm new to Cocoa (and carbon, and quicktime, and everything!) and I was quite saddened to discover how terribly quicktime works with Cocoa (at least without delving into a lot of unCocoa-like crap; and the quicktime documentation is laid out so terrribly it takes me hours sometimes [yes, seriously] just to find a particular function I need).

Hamish
aas@umail.ucsb.edu

 

[cbaron]

Originally posted by Hamish
Use an NSMovieView. Mind you, NSMovieView is a buggy piece of sh**, but so far as I know it's the best way to do it. I'm new to Cocoa (and carbon, and quicktime, and everything!) and I was quite saddened to discover how terribly quicktime works with Cocoa (at least without delving into a lot of unCocoa-like crap; and the quicktime documentation is laid out so terrribly it takes me hours sometimes [yes, seriously] just to find a particular function I need).

Hamish
aas@umail.ucsb.edu

Of course NSMovieView don't do much things (it's limited to play:, stop:, setMovie:, etc... But you can access the full QuickTime API using the movieController method (see NSMovieView and QuickTime API references in the Developer docs for details. I also suggest you take a look at the SimpleCocoaMovie example on Apple's website, which makes call to the QuickTime API directly.

Have fun.

 

[whitesaint]

yeah and on the SampleCocoaMovie source code that CBaron put up, all you really need is the awakeFromNib function where it sets up the quicktime movie.

Hamish: IMO I think Quicktime with Cocoa is excellent and i havnt really found any bugs at all. You probably just dont know how to use it properly...