Inside Macintosh: QuickTime

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

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