Is it possible to show a QuickTime movie within a LabView program?

[Dave123]

HI,

In the past I've displayed still pictures, jpegs etc, within my LabView programs. I now want to display some short Quicktime movie files.

Will it be possible to do this? If so how?

Thanks,

Dave.

[rolfk]

Checkout Christoph Salzmanns Quicktime library.

http://labview.epfl.ch/qt/QTVIs.html

Rolf Kalbermatter

[unclebump]

Try this. It uses an activex quicktime object. 7.0 format.

[Dave123]

Thanks but I couldn't get it to work on my machine. I'm using a Mac, did you write it for a PC?

Is the QTActiveXPlugIn for PC only?

Dave.

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@unclebump wrote:

Try this. It uses an activex quicktime object. 7.0 format.

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[rolfk]

ActiveX is a Windows only technology. Christoph Salzmann's VIs however will also run on the Mac which is the beauty of such libraries not relying on ActiveX.

Rolf Kalbermatter

Message Edited by rolfk on 07-04-2005 08:19 AM

[Dave123]

Thanks,

I tried downloading the Quicktime library from where you suggested but it seems to run QT movies slow and jerky.

Is there nothing any better? Is there not a Quicktime plug-in for LabView?

Thanks,
Dave.

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@rolfk wrote:
Checkout Christoph Salzmanns Quicktime library.

http://labview.epfl.ch/qt/QTVIs.html

Rolf Kalbermatter

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[rolfk]

This is the absolutely closest thing to a plugin you can find. It is likely not very fast since displaying a movie in a picture control is not a very fast thing to do. But if you need full Quicktime Movie speed best is probably anyhow to actually call the Movie Player over a command line and let displaying Quicktime movies do the app which is meant to do that.

I have at one time played around with creating a Quicktime Movie plugin. But I have since moved to more fruitful work. I would estimate a good working solution to work both on the Mac and Windows done in a proper way would require anywhere from four to maybe eight weeks of full time development. Since the sale of LabVIEW plugins/toolkits is an exercise in vain (everybody wants it for free or otherwise they buy a National Instrument Toolkit) spending that amount of time is simply not an option as long as there are other things to do, and that is always ;-)

Rolf Kalbermatter