On Windows 7-8 Media Foundation allows playback of many types of video files. Is there something similar on OSX 10.6 and above? Is there an easy way to use Quicktime, for example? I don't need to do anything fancy, just play the video with the ability to set the position, stop, and start.
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not the right place for a question like this, but check out VLC Media Player – ryanbwork Jan 22 '13 at 00:37
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2@ryanbwork It appears the OP is asking about playing video from code on OS X, not asking for recommendations about video player applications. – mttrb Jan 22 '13 at 03:00
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Exactly. I'm not looking for video player applications. – TomJeffries Jan 22 '13 at 04:25
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See the Cocoa classes QTMovie and QTMovieView. As I recall, you need a third party plug-in codec to play wmv files with QuickTime, but mp4 and avi should be OK out of the box.
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Thanks- that's what I'm looking for, a way to write code that plays movies rather than a way to play them from the desktop. There are lots of programs that play movies, I need to know what classes to use to incorporate that into a program. – TomJeffries Jan 22 '13 at 04:24
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vlc player, MPlayer both are available for OSX. you can download both the player from respective sites for OSX.
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