[davecom]

I need a way to play CD's from Cocoa. I'm hoping I won't have to go as low level as core audio or the carbon sound manager. I've found source code for going that route from the OmniGroup.

Thanks,
David

[ 01-22-2002: Message edited by: davecom ]

[seb2]

ok, i just tried it with nssound, doesn't work because it doesn't support sounds in aifc, i get "NSSound error: found AIFC form type in AIFF sound; cannot play these yet" -- yet... lol!

but what i've just tried that works is the following:

add the quicktime framework by choosing "project > add framework". now, import quicktime by adding this line to the head of your .m file:

<font face = "courier">#import <QuickTime/Movies.h></font>

the rest is simple: initialize a movie this way:

<font face = "courier">NSMovie *someMovie = [[NSMovie alloc] initWithURL:[NSURL fileURLWithPath:<PATH>] byReference:YES];</font>

where PATH is the full path to the file on the cd.
then, you can play it this way:

<font face = "courier">StartMovie([someMovie QTMovie]);</font>

simple, isn't it? three lines of code... ;-)

edit: i wasn't very specific; yes, i'm talking about audio.
and thinking about it: "import" doesn't count -- that makes it two lines...

[ 01-21-2002: Message edited by: seb2 ]

[davecom]

Originally posted by seb2:
<STRONG>ok, i just tried it with nssound, doesn't work because it doesn't support sounds in aifc, i get "NSSound error: found AIFC form type in AIFF sound; cannot play these yet" -- yet... lol!

but what i've just tried that works is the following:

add the quicktime framework by choosing "project &gt; add framework". now, import quicktime by adding this line to the head of your .m file:

&lt;font face = "courier"&gt;#import &lt;QuickTime/Movies.h&gt;&lt;/font&gt;

the rest is simple: initialize a movie this way:

&lt;font face = "courier"&gt;NSMovie *someMovie = [[NSMovie alloc] initWithURL:[NSURL fileURLWithPath:&lt;PATH&gt;] byReference:YES];&lt;/font&gt;

where PATH is the full path to the file on the cd.
then, you can play it this way:

&lt;font face = "courier"&gt;StartMovie([someMovie QTMovie]);&lt;/font&gt;

simple, isn't it? three lines of code... ;-)

edit: i wasn't very specific; yes, i'm talking about audio.
and thinking about it: "import" doesn't count -- that makes it two lines...

[ 01-21-2002: Message edited by: seb2 ]</STRONG>

Thanks so much. I really appreciate it. Now how can I take control of this movie. Such as knowing the position in the file that the playing is at etc.

Thanks again,
David

[seb2]

Originally posted by davecom:
<STRONG>Thanks so much. I really appreciate it. Now how can I take control of this movie. Such as knowing the position in the file that the playing is at etc.

Thanks again,
David</STRONG>

i fear i don't know that much more about this. stopping, rewinding and finding out the duration is some simple stuff i can do, but quicktime is a lot of ugly pure c stuff. no idea how to find out where it is playing. sorry.

actually, the first time i had a look at movies.h was about a week ago.

whenever i have problems with carbon stuff and the like, i -- cough -- call my brother. ;-)
he's way brighter than i am.

[davecom]

Originally posted by seb2:
<STRONG>

i fear i don't know that much more about this. stopping, rewinding and finding out the duration is some simple stuff i can do, but quicktime is a lot of ugly pure c stuff. no idea how to find out where it is playing. sorry.

actually, the first time i had a look at movies.h was about a week ago.

whenever i have problems with carbon stuff and the like, i -- cough -- call my brother. ;-)
he's way brighter than i am.</STRONG>

I found a lot of info at the Quicktime API pages online. It's a bit cryptic, but I think I'll manage. Thanks for all your help.