Re: Waiting until a player is loaded

2006-10-02 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Oct 1, 2006, at 2:04 AM, Klaus Major wrote: And with the new version (already uploaded this one, Trevor?) there is no need for exporting a thumbnail to an external file, just put it into a variable and do whatever you want with the data. I don't know that the version that grabs

Re: Waiting until a player is loaded

2006-10-01 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hello Jacque, Obviously you tried all methods but without starting the player: PlayLoudness zero repeat load;start;[wait x ms];stop;set currentTime to zero;snapshot... Not tested ;-) Le 1 oct. 06 à 04:05, J. Landman Gay a écrit : I am trying to load a series of movies into players in a loop,

Re: Waiting until a player is loaded

2006-10-01 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Jaqueline, I am trying to load a series of movies into players in a loop, in order to make thumbnails. Inside a repeat loop, I set each player's filename, then take a snapshot of it to get a thumbnail image. This works just fine when I step through it in the debugger. However, if I

Re: Waiting until a player is loaded

2006-10-01 Thread Mark Smith
Would making something else happen in the loop force the screen to refresh? Perhaps setting and un-setting the hilite of a button or something. Best, Mark On 1 Oct 2006, at 06:42, J. Landman Gay wrote: Dar Scott wrote: On Sep 30, 2006, at 8:05 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: However, if I

Re: Waiting until a player is loaded

2006-10-01 Thread J. Landman Gay
Eric Chatonet wrote: Obviously you tried all methods but without starting the player: PlayLoudness zero repeat load;start;[wait x ms];stop;set currentTime to zero;snapshot... Not tested ;-) You're a genuis, it works! It's a little jerky, but I don't care. I added these lines to the loop:

Re: Waiting until a player is loaded

2006-10-01 Thread J. Landman Gay
Klaus Major wrote: can't you just use Trevors extraordinary EnhancedQT External for this (and other extremely handy) task(s)? No problems in a loop :-) Eric had the solution, so I don't have to now. The QT external would have been a little bit overkill, since I am only loading the player to

Re: Waiting until a player is loaded

2006-10-01 Thread sims
At 1:04 PM -0500 10/1/06, J. Landman Gay wrote: Eric Chatonet wrote: Obviously you tried all methods but without starting the player: PlayLoudness zero repeat load;start;[wait x ms];stop;set currentTime to zero;snapshot... Not tested ;-) You're a genuis, it works! That genius, Eric

Re: Waiting until a player is loaded

2006-10-01 Thread Sivakatirswami
Oh.. yes, fun with QuickTime and players... I'm deep into this myself, with remote URL's, streaming media -- Windows boulders and sand traps... Try this -- assumes your screen shot could be one or two frames in -- and -- you are not in a big rush untested hack, that avoids trying to

Re: Waiting until a player is loaded

2006-10-01 Thread J. Landman Gay
Sivakatirswami wrote: Oh.. yes, fun with QuickTime and players... I'm deep into this myself, with remote URL's, streaming media -- Windows boulders and sand traps... Try this -- assumes your screen shot could be one or two frames in -- and -- you are not in a big rush untested hack, that

Waiting until a player is loaded

2006-09-30 Thread J. Landman Gay
I am trying to load a series of movies into players in a loop, in order to make thumbnails. Inside a repeat loop, I set each player's filename, then take a snapshot of it to get a thumbnail image. This works just fine when I step through it in the debugger. However, if I let the loop run at

Re: Waiting until a player is loaded

2006-09-30 Thread Phil Davis
Jackie, Have you tried setting the filename of the players to empty between movies? I've seen that solve similar problems. Phil Davis J. Landman Gay wrote: I am trying to load a series of movies into players in a loop, in order to make thumbnails. Inside a repeat loop, I set each player's

Re: Waiting until a player is loaded

2006-09-30 Thread J. Landman Gay
Phil Davis wrote: Jackie, Have you tried setting the filename of the players to empty between movies? I've seen that solve similar problems. Good idea, but these are all different players, each created on the fly as needed. It is looking to me like a combination of both OS X, which doesn't

Re: Waiting until a player is loaded

2006-09-30 Thread Dar Scott
On Sep 30, 2006, at 8:05 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: However, if I let the loop run at its natural speed, I get a bunch of blank snapshots, either because the content isn't fully loaded before the script continues, or because the screen isn't refreshing (I can't tell which.) I need a way to

Re: Waiting until a player is loaded

2006-09-30 Thread J. Landman Gay
Dar Scott wrote: On Sep 30, 2006, at 8:05 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: However, if I let the loop run at its natural speed, I get a bunch of blank snapshots, either because the content isn't fully loaded before the script continues, or because the screen isn't refreshing (I can't tell which.)