Thanks for that. Installed the program, loaded the AVI and it says "No Codec Needed" and "it's already built into the O/S", and "it should play fine".
Where to next? Thanks, Ross. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of CubicDesign Sent: Thursday, 17 April 2008 1:19 p.m. To: Borland's Delphi Discussion List Subject: Re: TMediaPlayer & Cool.avi no go Do you have the codec installed for that avi file? There is no such thing as AVI videos. Avi is just a container. Important is the codec not the container. Play your avi file with a different player like VLC or BSPlayer. Does it work? Also do a Google search for a tool called GSpot. It will tell you what coded you need to have installed in order to play that video file. Ross Levis wrote: > I'm trying to get the TMediaPlayer component to play AVI files. I have no > problems with WMV and MPEG videos but AVI doesn't want to work. > > For example, Delphi 7 comes with a very short video named cool.avi in the > Program Files\Borland\Delphi7\Demos\CoolStuf folder. This plays in Windows > Media Player but in TMediaPlayer it says "The MCI device you are using does > not support the specified command" when attempting to open it. > > The DeviceType property is set to dtAutoSelect but I've tried dtAVIVideo > with no success. > > I know there are other better video components out there but I don't have > time to invest in them. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > Ross. listinfo/delphi _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/delphi
