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QuickTime 4 API Documentation

Road Map to QuickTime 4

Wired Movies API Reference

This chapter provides an extensive API reference of constants and data types available to your application for wired movies support.

This chapter also describes the new movie actions and operands available to your application in QuickTime 4.

For more conceptual information about wired movies, refer to Introduction to Wired Movies, Sprites, and the Sprite Toolbox For information about how to work with and author wired movies and sprite animations, refer to Authoring Wired Movies and Sprite Animations .

Wired movies were originally introduced in QuickTime 3 and have been enhanced in QuickTime 4. These interactive movies can be played in any Web browser using the QuickTime plug-in, and in all applications as long as they use the QuickTime movie controller API.

Wired Movies API

QuickTime Wired Movies provides an extensive reference of constants and data types for wired movie support.It also describes the new movie actions and operands available in QuickTime 4.


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