Inside Macintosh: QuickTime /

Chapter 2 - Movie Toolbox / Movie Toolbox Reference

Functions for Editing Movies / Low-Level Movie-Editing Functions

DeleteMovieSegment

The DeleteMovieSegment function removes a specified segment from a movie. You identify the segment to remove by specifying its starting time and duration.

pascal OSErr DeleteMovieSegment (Movie theMovie, TimeValue in,
                                 TimeValue duration);

theMovie

Specifies the movie for this operation. Your application obtains this movie identifier from such functions as NewMovie, NewMovieFromFile, and NewMovieFromHandle (described on page 2-80, page 2-76, and page 2-78, respectively).

in

Contains a time value specifying the starting point of the segment
to be deleted.

duration

Contains a time value that specifies the duration of the segment
to be deleted.

ERROR CODES

invalidMovie	-2010	This movie is corrupted or invalid
invalidDuration	-2014	This duration value is invalid
invalidTime	-2015	This time value is invalid