how can i detect control bar position change in movieplayer?

General
1

there doesn’t seem to be an event for when the user moves the movieplayer’s position. Is there a workaround to determinine that it has been moved and its current position?

2

AFAIK there isn’t even an event in the underlying player on macOS, so my guess would be to use a timer and poll .position. Alternatively, hide the controls and create your own custom controller that would allow you to know everything (regarding the video playback).

p.s. Even with a custom controller, I think you still have to use a Timer to set the position on your controller to match the video player.

3

Using the HTML5 audio/video Player in an HTMLViewer could do the trick.

https://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_av_dom.asp

4

i will have to look into both of these options. thanks!

5

while i got htmlviewer to display the movie, it would not display html5 video subtitles using the attribute like i need it to do. I had the s/w write the video embedded in html5 page and that page works perfectly in a browser but only the movie shows in htmlViewer. must not fully support html5. might have to do that with a canvas paint or something.

6

A word of warning when using an HTMLView to play movies, it won’t work if your application is Sandboxed and you try to access a movie via a Security-Scoped Bodegmark. It will work with the built-in MoviePlayer, just not the HTMLViewer :frowning: I found this the hard way.

If you don’t use Security-Scoped Bodgemarks, you’ll be fine. Just another Apple framework that’s incompatible with their own security system.

7

goal is to get it in the app store eventually. never heard of Security-Scoped Bodgemarks.