QTMCC 07 - Checking If QuickTime Movies Are Playing
Technical Q&A's
QTMCC 07 - Checking If QuickTime Movies Are Playing (15-Sept-95)
Q Is there any way to ask Quicktime, at the operating system level, whether any
movies are currently playing?
A This is not as simple as you might think. QuickTime is not a centralized
system of movie playback. Each application that uses QuickTime independently
creates and plays back movies from that application's own heap. An application
may or may not use the QuickTime MovieController component; it may even use its
own custom playback calls, completely (or partially) bypassing QuickTime's
playback routines.
QuickTime is a set of utilities providing movie playback, not a single entity
that plays back movies.
