MCI playback redirection
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I'm writing a project with Visual Basic 3.0. I want to include several FLC
files in this project and have the playback redirected to a window of my
choice.
In the past I've have used the AAPLAY.VBX custom control which works fine, but
in this instance, (due to space restrictions) I want to re-direct the playback
to another window, which is also being used to playback digital video (from an
Actionmedia II card). I have re-directed MCI stuff to various windows by
supplying the Hwind to the MCI custom control supplied by Microsoft, and all
the AVI files (both AVI and INDEO) work fine like this, but the MCIAAP.DRV that
I have on my system (16,912 bytes, 06/29/92) doesn't seem to like re-directing
the playback, and always displays in the centre of the screen.
Is there an up-dated driver?
Does it work at all?
Thanks
Jerry Quartley
Unfortunately, you can not get the MCIAAP driver to accept a redirection to
another window as parent. This was necessary at the time the driver was
written in order to get it to behave "correctly" (that was back in the Windows
3.0 – premultimedia days). You should be able to position the playback windows
where you want it to be, but otherwise I'm not sure of a good work-around for
you, short of using direct calls the AAPLAY.DLL.
Thanks, I'm probably going to use the AAPLAY.DLL calls to make this happen