Re: Re: Playing mp4 with mci

Hi Chris,

Sorry about the "original". I meant the one I use which is a supped up
version of the one used by GCView. Its only "original" to me :)

Also, by "full screen window", I meant to be able to show it in a G4C
window (which I see now that it can) so I can handle it, make it full
screen and zoom, etc using:
- mci 'put movie destination at 0 0 $$gui.width $$gui.height'

I want to understand this well, but I'm kind of swamped by other work, so
it may take a while..

From what I see the main change is that instead of:
- mci 'open "$%path" alias movie'
you give:
- mci 'open "$%path" type mpegVideo alias movie'

ie you define it as type "mpegVideo". This makes it work for MP4, but it
also works with AVI (haven't tried any others yet). How come? Does
mpegVideo work with everything or would I have to parse the file extension
and use different "type" every time?

Also, if I use my "original" gui, adding the above "type" argument, the mp4
video starts off black and then slowly resolves to the image it's supposed
to show. But if I use the gui you provided "mci_video_player_v2.gui" it
plays perfectly.. Do you know why? Does it have something to do with the
dll you provided?

Also, what does the dll do? Not the part you added now for handling full
screen, but the previous one. From what I saw it just sends the command
line to mci. Is it a replacement for the MCI command, and what does it add?

Thanks,
Dimitris



On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 6:09 PM, [email protected] [gui4cli] <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> Hi Dimitris,
>
> I uploaded "MCI_AUDIO_VIDE0_PACK_v2.7z" to the file/gui section.
>
> It contains a much better video player example that fixes the fullscreen
> issue on Win7
> by using a borderless window. All files are new also the dll with source
> code and the
> readme text file.
>
> I found the last MCI player before I swiched over to DirectShow which
> fixes several
> errors in the aspect ratio calculations, compared to the earlier upload.
>
> It now swiches properly back to windowed display when you double-click. No
> black screen
> anymore. When you swich to fullscreen, there's a short delay (approx. 1
> sec max) before
> the taskbar disapears. I wasn't able to fix that. Navigarion info is at
> the file load gui and
> the video clip path is saved in the ini file.
>
> Note that the actual player is in the same gui as NEWFILE AVSHOW but can
> also be
> used separately from a more advanced custom video clip manager (for
> example).
>
> Chris
>
>
> ---In [email protected], <gui4cli@...> wrote :
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> I ran the gui in the package you uploaded and it does run mp4 files, but
> not full screen.
>
> Is it possible to do it full-screen as the original gui does?
>
> Dimitris
>
>  
>