The first book on QuickTime for .NET and COM application and scripting developers Written by John Cromie, one of the architects of Apple's QuickTime ActiveX/COM control Offers numerous sample applications and code examples

Overview    Who is this book for?    Chapters    Sample Code    Errata

• Chapter 1. Introduction
  Why QuickTime?
  Why .NET and COM?
  COM
  .NET
  COM Interop
  QuickTime Meets COM and .NET
  Who Is This Book For?
  What Should I Know Before Reading This Book?
  Code Samples
  Additional Resources
  .NET, Visual Basic, and C#
  Windows Scripting
  QuickTime
  
  
• Chapter 2. Getting Started with the QuickTime Control
  Introduction
  Hello World!
  Simple Player - the Basics
  Initialization
  Opening and Closing Movies
  Controlling the Movie
  Getting Information about the Movie
  Scaling the Movie
  Full-Screen Movies
  Automatically Sizing the Form
  About
  
  
• Chapter 3. Using the QuickTime Control
  Introduction
  The Apple QuickTime Control
  A COM control in .NET
  Get the Big Picture
  Movies
  Loading a Movie
  Movie Scaling and Sizing
  A Resizable Window for Simple Player
  Background and Border
  Movie Controller
  Auto Play
  Control over Full-Screen Display
  Initializing QuickTime
  Is QuickTime Available?
  Probing Deeper
  
  
• Chapter 4. The QuickTime Object Model
  Introduction
  Object Models
  The QuickTime Object Model
  QTMovie and its Offspring
  The Movie: QTMovie
  Playback Control
  Movie Time and Movie Time Scale
  Playing Selections
  Movie Playback Settings
  Tracks: QTTracks and QTTrack
  Iterating over the Tracks
  Enabling and Disabling a Track
  Positioning a Track
  Meet the FourCharCode
  Streams: QTStreams and QTStream
  QuickTime VR
  Nodes: QTVRNodes and QTVRNode
  Hotspots: QTHotspots and QTHotspot
  Chapters: QTChapters
  QTQuickTime and its Offspring
  QTQuickTime
  QuickTime Version
  QuickTime Settings: QTSettings
  Language
  Media Keys
  Exporters: QTExporters and QTExporter
  Export with Export Dialog
  Export with Export Settings Dialog
  Batch Export
  Potential Exporters
  Summary
  
  
• Chapter 5. Diving Deeper
  Essential Topics for Serious QuickTime Development
  Introduction
  QuickTime Events
  Registering for QuickTime Events
  Handling QuickTime Events
  Adding a QTEvent handler in Visual Basic .NET
  Adding a QTEvent handler in C#
  Event Parameters
  Sample: QuickTime Events Demo
  QuickTime Metadata
  Annotations
  Custom Annotations
  Metadata in MPEG Files
  Getting all the Annotations
  CFObject and Its Uses
  CFObject Collection
  CFObject Array (CFArray)
  CFObject Dictionary (CFDictionary)
  The Annotations CFDictionary
  Complex CFObject Data Structures
  Inspecting a Complex CFObject
  Inspecting QuickTime Event Parameters
  Persistent CFObjects
  Saving Exporter Settings
  Error Handling
  
  
• Chapter 6. Create and Edit
  Creating and Editing QuickTime Content
  Introduction
  The Joy of Cut, Copy, and Paste
  Implementing the Edit Menu
  Saving the Movie
  Creating a New Movie
  Movie Builder
  Assembling a Movie
  Adding an Overlay
  Subtitling the Movie
  Summary of the Edit Capabilities of QTMovie
  Creating a Movie from Images
  SMIL the Movie
  Creating a Movie Using GDI
  Saving a New Movie
  
  
• Chapter 7. Browsing the Media
  Design and Build a Complete QuickTime Application
  For the Birds
  Design Decisions
  The Objects
  Visualizing the Design
  Implementation
  Picking the Components
  Building the Bare Bones
  Directory Browsing
  Media Display
  Media Viewer
  Keeping the Viewers in Order
  Wiring Up the Connections
  Adding the QuickTime Control
  Media Inspector
  A Tooltip
  Wrap Up
  
  
• Chapter 8. Scripting QuickTime Player
  Introduction
  Scripting QuickTime on the Mac
  Windows Scripting Host
  COM (Automation) Server
  QuickTime Player: a COM Server
  Opening and Playing a Movie
  The QuickTime Player Object Model
  Working with Players
  A Movie Builder Script
  Batch Export from the Command Line
  Event Handlers
  Droplets
  Windows Scripting File (.wsf) format
  
  
• Chapter 9. QuickTime meets Office
  QuickTime Development in Microsoft Excel and Access
  Introduction
  Visual Basic for Applications
  QuickTime in Excel
  Adding the QuickTime Control
  ActiveX and Macro Security
  Adding a Play/Stop Cell
  Movie Inspector
  Movie Inspector with Annotation Editing
  Batch Processing: Movie Annotator
  QuickTime in Access?
  Movie Display
  QuickTime Event Handling
  
  
• Appendix A. QuickTime COM Object Reference
  QuickTime Control (QTOControlLib)
  QTOLibrary
  
  
• Appendix B. Additional COM Host Environments
  QuickTime Control Basics in Other COM Hosts
  Visual Basic 6
  Delphi
  ATL/WTL
  
  
• Appendix C. QuickTime Exporter Types