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planb
read Quicktime Size
Mar 9th, 2009, 3:26pm  
Hi there,

Does anyone of you know if its possible to read the dimensions of an quicktime movie? I did not find anything about that in the docs.
I would like to read many different quicktime movies and create an html site with tables of the according size(s).

Thank you very much for your help.
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andrewowaun
Re: read Quicktime Size
Reply #1 - Mar 9th, 2009, 6:26pm  
I've tried this numerous times with no luck. I have resorted to loading the movie. Saving the first frame as a predertimed filename. Loading that same picture and then size the sketch based off of the image. I have had better results with JMCVideo where I can resize the frame and other multimedia effects. However, using the default quicktime library, I have difficulties.
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planb
Re: read Quicktime Size
Reply #2 - Mar 10th, 2009, 9:36am  
Hi Owaun,

thats a good tip, I am looking into the JMCVideo library!
Thanks for your reply.
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NoahBuddy
Re: read Quicktime Size
Reply #3 - Mar 12th, 2009, 5:20pm  
For the video size in the built in video library, you can use myMovie.width and myMovie.height since it is based on a PImage.

The trick to using these is that they seem to stay at 1 for a few cycles of draw(). I'm guessing that the video just needs time to load.
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planb
Re: read Quicktime Size
Reply #4 - Mar 13th, 2009, 6:05pm  
NoahBuddy, thanks for your reply.
You are right, the main problem was that the movies must be loaded at first and then the width property was accessible.
I also had to use a synchronized method to wait for the movies to be loaded.

Thanks for all your replies!
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