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Movie Importers

In general, movie importers don’t get idled. Typically, a movie importer just examines a file, scans it, and then creates a movie that will point at the file and describe how to play it. The media data is in that file, but the movie itself is in memory.

There is a special kind of movie importer component that remains open to do further work after the movie is constructed. These importers implement MovieImportIdle. These “idling importers” can throttle back their idles by implementing MovieImportSetIdleManager, and then using the Idle Manager calls to specify when they want to be idled next.

MovieImportSetIdleManager

Gives an Idle Manager object to a movie importer component, so it can report its idling needs.

MovieImportSetIdleManager (MovieImportComponent ci,
   IdleManager im);

Parameters

ci

A movie importer component instance.

im

An idle manager.

Discussion

This routine must be implemented by a movie importer that wants to report its idling needs.

Introduced in QuickTime 6.

Availability

• Available in Mac OS X v10.2 and later.

Declared In

QuickTimeComponents.h

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