Quicktime and which codec ist best supported?

[Richard Miller]

Tiemo,

You'll find far greater control with the player object than with the  
play command. To step through with the player, you simply

     set the currenttime of player x to y

and use this in a loop and/or with the mousedown command.

Look in the documentation for currenttime, duration, endtime,  
starttime, timescale, and alwaysbuffer, and sort through how to use  
those. Combine this functionality with Trevor's great EnchangedQT  
externals and you have all the functionality you need.

Richard


On Feb 19, 2007, at 2:36 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote:

> Hello Richard,
> I was just thinking the opposite, because with the player object I  
> only
> found a start and stop command, I use the play command without the  
> player,
> because there I have the step command included, what I didn't found  
> with the
> player object. Or did I missed something? And stepping is a must  
> for me.
> Tiemo
>
>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> Von: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-revolution-
>> bounces at lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von Richard Miller
>> Gesendet: Montag, 19. Februar 2007 01:40
>> An: How to use Revolution
>> Betreff: Re: AW: OT: Quicktime and which codec ist best supported?
>>
>> I've never had much luck with the play command. It's quite limited in
>> functionality. Try the player object. Just set its filename to
>> any .avi file and use the "start player x" and "stop player x"
>> commands to begin with.
>>
>> Richard
>>
>>
>> On Feb 18, 2007, at 1:14 PM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote:
>>
>>> Richard,
>>> I'll have a look for 3ivx.
>>> When testing with avi, just nothing happened, but I don't use the
>>> player
>>> object, I use just the play command - might there be a difference
>>> between
>>> using the player object and a pure play command?
>>>
>>> Thank you
>>> Tiemo
>>>
>>>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>>>> Von: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com [mailto:use- 
>>>> revolution-
>>>> bounces at lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von Richard Miller
>>>> Gesendet: Sonntag, 18. Februar 2007 18:15
>>>> An: How to use Revolution
>>>> Betreff: Re: OT: Quicktime and which codec ist best supported?
>>>>
>>>> Tiemo,
>>>>
>>>> The best Quicktime-compatible codec we've found is 3ivx. Best
>>>> compression yielding the best graphics. It's at 3ivx.com, for both
>>>> Windows and Mac. It's used commercially, for example, in the Pure
>>>> Digital Point & Shoot video cameras (which are rather amazing  
>>>> little
>>>> camcorders). Yes, your customers will have to download and install
>>>> it, but that's an easy practice. We've integrated their installer
>>>> into our own Rev installer program to make it even easier for the
>>>> customer.
>>>>
>>>> AVI'S work fine in the default Rev player object.
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Richard Miller
>>>> Imprinter Technologies
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Feb 18, 2007, at 6:37 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello all,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am new to Revolution and Quicktime-Video. I have read the
>>>>> archives, but
>>>>> still unsure about the right way for video. I produce offline
>>>>> content,
>>>>> distributed on CD / DVD-ROM
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. With Revolution build-in player I can only play .mov - right?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 2. As mov is only a container format I know that I can use
>>>>> different codecs
>>>>> with mov. Best results when testing produced the Sorenson 3 codec.
>>>>> I tested
>>>>> also with SorensonTM ( little less), Apple MPEG 4 (almost as  
>>>>> good),
>>>>> Apple
>>>>> Cinepac (bad quality) and Apple Planar (best quality but  
>>>>> incredible
>>>>> giant
>>>>> file size).
>>>>>
>>>>> My question is, which codec comes with Quicktime installer, or  
>>>>> what
>>>>> codec
>>>>> can I assume on customer machine?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 4. Are there differences of quicktime installation between  
>>>>> Apple and
>>>>> Windows, beside quicktime on apple is preinstalled?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 5. If e.g. the Sorenson codec doesn't come with Quicktime, can I
>>>>> install the
>>>>> Sorenson codec additional to quicktime on customer machine and
>>>>> quicktime
>>>>> will grab it, if I encoded my mov with Sorenson?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 6. I encoded movs on one of my machines and playing on the other
>>>>> machine
>>>>> showed only "LSD-like colored blur", though on both machines
>>>>> quicktime 7.1.3
>>>>> (Windows) is installed. So there are obvious more factors, as
>>>>> quicktime
>>>>> version and codec to harmonize - what?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 7. Which codec is the best approach with best quality and best
>>>>> compatibility
>>>>> when using mov?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 8. As I have read on Apples quicktime site, I need an agreement
>>>>> from Apple
>>>>> to distribute the player with my application and have to put their
>>>>> logo on
>>>>> my product. Do you have any experiences with that procedure and
>>>>> restriction?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 9. Did anyone tried to play avi or swf in revolution. I am not yet
>>>>> so far to
>>>>> use a shell execute, but I could think that could be an approach.
>>>>> But I
>>>>> don't know, if you have the chance to use controls / methods  
>>>>> with a
>>>>> called
>>>>> exe, so that I can control an external player from within
>>>>> revolution (stop,
>>>>> pause,play,step, get mediastatus,.)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Lots of questions, I hope not too much
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for any experience sharing
>>>>>
>>>>> Tiemo
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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