Re: Using Quicktime and RealMedia Codecs with TMediaPlayer

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From: Mark Jacobs
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 13:15

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"Mark Jacobs" <markj atty critical dotty co dotty uk> wrote in message
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> I have downloaded and installed the codecs from http://global.kazaalitekpp.net/download.php for playing
> RealMedia and QuickTime files without having QuickTime Player or RealPlayer installed. There is also a
player
> called "Media Player Classic" which demonstrates that the codecs have been installed correctly, as does
> Windows MediaPlayer, which all play .MOV files no problem now.
> However, my little app based around TMediaPlayer keeps giving me the message "Cannot determine the device
type
> from the given filename extension". I have tried *ALL* of the DeviceTypes for TMediaPlayer and none of them
> work. How do I do this? TIA,

I found out how to do this. Under the registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\MCI Extensions
add string values called mov, qt, rm, and ram and set their string to MPEGVideo. Now the system recognises
them. Yippee!!
-- 
Mark Jacobs
DK Computing
http://www.dkcomputing.co.uk
markj atty critical dotty co dotty uk

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