Forcing an mpg movie to play in quicktime

[Lynda Troka]

I would like to force an mpeg-1 movie to play in Quicktime. If I tell it to open the movie, it will open in Windows Media Player and not in Quicktime. I tried to search but my query was too long. [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/frown.gif[/img]

Any suggestions.

[Mark]

Hi,

What you should do is execute QuickTime using an Execute Program action, and then pass the pull path to your MPEG file as a command line parameter.

mark.

[arlee]

Hi,

I am new at this, and I am very interested in forcing a mpg movie to play in quick time.

Can You explain it in more details please ?

I would appreciate if anybody will email me an example of AMS file where mpg is forced to play in quick time. Here is my email:

arlee37@yahoo.com

Thanks.

[njlech]

It would probably go something like this:

File Name: %SrcDrv%\Program Files\QuickTime\QuickTimePlayer.exe
Arguments: %SrcDrv%\movie.mpg
Working Dir:

You can also do a Search for File (to search for QuickTimePlayer.exe) before the Execute Program function and store the results in a variable (%QTPlayer%). Then put the variable in the File Name field for the Execute Program function.

Of course, you can customize the Quicktime path and/or the path to your mpg file as needed, wherever these are located.

[Mark]

Hi,

Simply create an EXECUTE PROGRAM action that will launch Quick Time. Then place the FULL PATH to your MPEG movie in the Arguments field.

For example:

File Name: C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QuickTimePlayer.exe
Arguments: %SrcDrv%\MyMovies\MyMpeg.MPG

You will just have to make sure that you have a reliable path to launch Quick Time.

mark.

[arlee]

It works !!!

Thank You Very Much !!!