QT version on Windows

[xbury.cs at clearstream.com]

Hi Sims,

Besides my previous tip, here's another... 

My quicktime app is never installed in C:\program files....!!!

To find where, look first at...
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\quicktime\shell\open\command

And there's another key that's interesting for you - but it's not reliable 
(no xvid or divx which i have installed)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\QuickTime.aif  -- the AIF is the 
interesting bit which are the file types QT handles...


And there's a key in the registry that gives you also the installed 
codecs...
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows 
NT\CurrentVersion\drivers.desc
or
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Drivers32
but with this last one, unfortunately, you can't list the subkeys in a 
registry branch...

And i couldn't find any utility that could list the existing codecs. GSpot 
(free) tells you if you have the codec or not or what codec you need to 
play a file
but it's not exactly script friendly... I'll see if i find a vbs trick 
later...

cheers
Xavier


use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com wrote on 11/10/2005 09:43:29:

> At 1:07 AM -0500 10/11/05, Ken Ray wrote:
> >On 10/10/05 9:13 AM, "sims" <sims at ezpzapps.com> wrote:
> >
> >>  Anyone know how to check for the QuickTime version on a Windows 
machine
> >>  without using QTVersion?
> >
> >Well, you can find it in the WIndows registry at:
> >
> >   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Apple Computer, Inc.\QuickTime\Version
> >
> >But it is in binary; I've tried many forms of binaryDecode() and can't 
seem
> >to be able to extract it. Anyone else want to give it a go?
> 
> Thanks for the attempt Ken.
> 
> My videos are either QT 7 H.264 or wmv files, so I need to assign one 
> or the other
> (the QT 7 H.264 are outstanding and much smaller in size)
> 
> So, for now I've resorted to the following:
> 
> set the defaultFolder to "C:/Program Files/QuickTime/QTSystem"
> put the files into tData
> if "H264" is in tData then doStuff
> 
> If   H264 is not there I give them the wmv version.
> 
> It does seem a bit strange to have to load QT (QTVersions) in order 
> to see what
> version it is! Once you do that you are stuck!
> 
> Any comments on my hack of a work around are most appreciated.
> 
> ciao,
> sims
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