Functions for Getting and Playing Movies
The Movie Toolbox provides a number of functions that allow applications to get and play movies. There are also a number of functions that allow you to create new movies. This section describes those functions and has been divided into the following topics:
- "Initializing the Movie Toolbox" discusses the functions that your application must use to gain access to the Movie Toolbox
- "Error Functions" discusses the Movie Toolbox functions that allow you to work
with error codes returned by Movie Toolbox functions- "Movie Functions" describes functions that your application can use to create and access movie resources and movie files
- "Saving Movies" describes the Movie Toolbox functions that allow you to save movies
- "Controlling Movie Playback" describes the functions that you can use to control movie playback
- "Movie Posters and Movie Previews" discusses the functions that allow applications to work with movie posters and movie previews
- "Movies and Your Event Loop" discusses the Movie Toolbox functions that your application must call from its main event loop
- "Preferred Movie Settings" describes functions your application can use to set
the preferred playback settings of a movie- "Enhancing Movie Playback Performance" discusses several techniques for improving movie playback performance
- "Disabling Movies and Tracks" describes the functions that allow your application
to disable movies and tracks- "Generating Pictures From Movies" discusses the Movie Toolbox functions that allow your application to create pictures from movie data
- "Creating Tracks and Media Structures" describes the functions your application must use to create new data for a movie
- "Working With Progress and Cover Functions" describes the functions that allow you to specify a custom function that is called during movie playback