Introduction To QuickTime Movie Playback Programming Guide

This document describes how to open and play stored media, including QuickTime movies and other formats that QuickTime can automatically import and play, from sources such as a file, URL, pointer, or handle.

This document supersedes and replaces "Opening and Playing Movies."

The information in this document is of interest to nearly all developers working with QuickTime.

This document is intended for programmers working in C or C++ using the Carbon or QuickTime for Windows frameworks. Cocoa developers should generally use the QuickTime Kit framework instead, but may have occasion to use the interfaces described here for access to low-level functions not duplicated in Cocoa.

Organization of This Document

This document contains the following sections:

• Overview

• Setting Up Graphics and Audio Output

• Getting a Movie

• Monitoring the Load State

• Playing a Movie

• Appendix A: File Types QuickTime Can Open as Movies

• Appendix B: Playing a Movie Using Low-Level Commands

• Movie Playback Reference