I have the DVD Player but I have to play with it later and see how
weell it will work; can't do that at work. :)
Jane
On Mar 12, 2006, at 10:44 PM, Travis Siegel wrote:
Sorry about that. url was wrong.
It's actually
http://homepage.mac.com/windowbridge/
Sorry for the confusion.
On Mar 12, 2006, at 11:40 PM, Louie Most wrote:
Travis,
Tried to download web page not found.
On M
ar 12, 2006, at 8:29 PM, Travis Siegel wrote:
Hello everyone.
I've finally gotten something working that I think you'll find
interesting.
I've taken one of the apple samples from the adc, and made it
completely accessible with a bit of help from a friend who was
visiting this weekend. The program is a dvd player, and while it
doesn't give you the name of the dvd like apple's dvd player
does, it does give you 100% control over the control of playing
your dvd the way you want it played.
There's actually two windows when you run the softcon dvd player.
One is the viewing window, where he movies are shown, the other
one is where the controls are kept.
You can play, pause, stop, and eject the disk. You can also scan
forward/backword, go forward/backward by scene, set and go to
bookmarks, and there's even status items to tell you what title
number is playing, and which scene within that title you're on.
There's also a toggle display there giving either the elapsed
time of the dvd's current selection, or if you click this time
display (use a shift-control-command-space bar) you'll change it
to how much time is left in the current title. I know most of
these options are there too in the apple provided dvd player, but
as far as I know, we can't get at these kinds of things. With
this player, you can see everything on it, and there's even a
button to change camera angle if the current title supports it.
Volume control is there too, and the menu/title button will take
you back to the selection menu so you can choose something else
to watch. Give it a try, and let me know what you'd like to see
added to it, or if you find something that doesn't work.
For the moment, I'm going to try to add a few things to it, but
not much of the interface will change, since XTools is such a
pain to work with. I may add additional features if they can be
added though w/o too much difficulty. Straight code isn't a
problem, only interface items, so download it, and give it a try.
It's currently located at:
http://member.mac.com/windowbridge.
Thanks, and I certainly hope this helps someone.
