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Re: TMediaPlayer Question - How to play MPEG

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From: John Blackburn
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 21:45
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Hello Michael,

    Saw your posting on playing MPEG-1 video files but you didn't go into
how it is actually done.
Can you help me - what components to use and where you got them from and how
they are used
- do you have a little code sample ?

I would be most grateful


John Blackburn


"Michael Crapo" <mcrapo@tng-ida.com> wrote in message
news:3b3ca58a.6431538@newsgroups.borland.com...
> OK - I figured it out.....   Just had some garbage on the filename.
> Ran it through Trim() and it works great.
>
> Mike
>
> On Fri, 29 Jun 2001 14:29:32 GMT, mcrapo@tng-ida.com (Michael Crapo)
> wrote:
>
> >Hello.
> >
> > I was wondering how to get the mediaplayer control to play
> >Mpeg files.  I was able to get one application to work playing the
> >files, but all other attempts have failed.  I can not reporduce it in
> >another application.  Everytime I try this error comes up. "Cannot
> >determain the device type from the given filename extension."  The
> >device type is set to dtAutoSelect in both applications.  Can someone
> >please help me.
> >
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >Mike
>
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