I bought PB 2019 R2. I need to add video to an application. I need to load a video (AVI, MPEG, or whatever) and control the size, looping, the video file name, etc. I am familiar with creating OLE objects to manipulate Word documents and Excel spreadsheets. What video software could I use in my PB app? Windows Media Player? What would you recommend? Where can I find the documentation on what properties or functions I can call from my application?
Thanks,
Craig
Hi Craig;
I just added multimedia support to my STD Framework's recent release near the end of 2020.
FYI: https://chrispollach.blogspot.com/2020/08/2020r2.html
I did not advertise the new "vs_ole_media_player_master" object class in the "STD_FC_PB_BaseW" PBL library as I had not fully tested it. The same for the most recent release: http://chrispollach.blogspot.com/2021/01/2020r2.html
However, I do have a very rough prototype of this object working in a Demo PB App. The Demo App is only partially built though as I only started to work on it last weekend. Its still "rough" but it does show the basics ...
The media player will support (in theory) using MP3, MOV, MPEG, MIDI, WTV, AVI, MP4, MPx, etc formats. However, I have not tried all of these yet (only MP3 and MP4). Nor, have I tested this in 64 bit mode. Only via running from the PB IDE and a 32bit EXE. Again, it's "early" work-in-progress.
Regards ... Chris