OpenURLMovie Function

Opens a movie at the specified URL.

Syntax

result = OpenURLMovie( URL )


Parameters

URL

String

URL that specifies the location of the movie.



Notes

On Windows, the movie is played using the Windows Media Player, Macintosh uses QuickTime and, OpenURLMovie is not supported on Linux.

For QuickTime movies, if the user has QuickTime 4 (or above) installed, OpenURLMovie supports streaming video. QuickTime is not available on Linux.


Example

The following example loads a streaming video and assigns it to the Movie property of a MoviePlayer control:

MoviePlayer1.movie=OpenURLMovie("http://www.apple.com/trailers/miramax/frida.html")

Note: Apple Computer, Inc. may remove this movie at their discretion. It is included here only to illustrate the function's syntax.


See Also

MoviePlayer control; EditableMovie, Movie classes.