Re: Opening a movie in Quicktime Player with a macro

Posted by ctrueden on Aug 23, 2007; 5:28pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Re-Opening-a-movie-in-Quicktime-Player-with-a-macro-tp3698544p3698545.html

Hi Bill,

> I am currently having trouble opening movies in ImageJ 1.37v using the
> latest QuickTime_Plugins.jar dowload and QTJava.zip from QuickTime 7.2 on
> Windows XP.

The Bio-Formats plugin can open several types of QuickTime movie (raw,
rle, jpeg, mjpb and some rpza) without using QTJava, so you could give
that a try. But this will only do what QuickTime Opener does, and
won't help with the QuickTime Player.

-Curtis

On 8/22/07, Bill Mohler <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Does this new version of the QuickTime Movie Player plugin come included
> in the QuickTime_Plugins.jar file that is available for download at
> http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/plugins/movie-player.html ?
>
> Or is it only the QT_Movie_Player.java file that is upgraded as of August
> 5?
>
> On a related tack...
> I am currently having trouble opening movies in ImageJ 1.37v using the
> latest QuickTime_Plugins.jar dowload and QTJava.zip from QuickTime 7.2 on
> Windows XP.
>
> I believe the QT_Movie_Player used to work on this machine, and I'm trying
> to figure out what has gone wrong.
>
> On Sun, 5 Aug 2007 23:30:47 -0400, Rasband Wayne <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> >There is a new version of the QuickTime Movie Player plugin at
> >
> >     http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/plugins/movie-player.htm
> >
> >that works with the command recorder. The previous version did not
> >because it opened the file using QuickTime instead of with ImageJ's
> >OpenDialog class.
> >
> >-wayne
> >
> >
> >On Aug 5, 2007, at 4:25 PM, aRnim wrote:
> >
> >> Hi All,
> >> is there a way to open movies with the quicktime player using a macro?
> >> When I do this manually (File>Import>QuickTime Player ...) I get
> >> nothing in
> >> the Recorder window unless I close the quicktime window. And than
> >> it just
> >> records run("QuickTime Player...");. no path to the movie which was
> >> opened.
> >> If I call that from a macro, I just get an 'Open File...'-Dialog at
> >> which
> >> stands at the last position I opened a movie from. That doesn't
> >> help me too
> >> much.
> >> How do I make the quicktime player open a certain file from a certain
> >> position?
> >> Thanks,
> >> aRnim
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