plaving an .AVI with CVI

[Luis Villa]

CVI 5 has an example project to play an .avi file Playavi.prj under
....\samples\activex\movie. I tried using this example after moving to CVI
5.5 and it doesn't work. Actually CVI 5.5 doesn't have a similar example.
Can playavi.prj be made to work with CVI 5.5? is there a way to use
activeMovie or any control newer than MCI for playing .avis with CVI?

Thanks

[Jason F.]

You might want to follow along with the discussion thread at the following link which has been answered by one of our Measurement Studio Support Engineers:

http://exchange.ni.com/servlet/ProcessRequest?RHIVEID=101&RNAME=ViewQuestion&HOID=506500000008000000D3100000&ECategory=LabWindows%2FCVI
In the post he says:

"You have a newer version of the Movie player than the one that was used to
create the example. They are not supposed to remove or change the old interfaces,
but they frequently do. I would create a new instrument driver for the Active
movie from the ActiveX Automation Wizard in the Tools menu and try and recreate
the program with that."

I agree with Chris wholeheartedly and think that you should give his suggestion a try as well. I hope this inf
ormation helps you out.

Jason F.
Applications Engineer
National Instruments
www.ni.com/ask

[LVilla]

I tried the suggestion to recreate the MSAmovie create activeX automation
controller suer enough some functions changed. Still after running the
project I get the same problem. I load the eagle.mpg it brings up Windows
media player starts playing but it won't respond to ethe client that called
it. the buttons onthe project dont get any response from media player. If I
press quit, the media player remains up there and I have to close it
manually.

Any ideas?

thanks

LVilla

"LVilla" wrote in message
news:3b0f1460@newsgroups....
> CVI 5 has an example project to play an .avi file Playavi.prj under
> ...\samples\activex\movie. I tried using this example after moving to CVI
> 5.5 and it doesn't work. Actually CVI 5.5 doesn't have a similar example.
> Can
playavi.prj be made to work with CVI 5.5? is there a way to use
> activeMovie or any control newer than MCI for playing .avis with CVI?
>
> Thanks
>
>