I want to have a control to display a .MOV in a Visual Basic frame.

Google results were no good.

Is there a simply way to do this?

...not using .NET, still using 6.0.

6/6/2006 9:08:44 PM

.NET is free to use

What's stopping you?

6/6/2006 9:10:00 PM

I'd guess that the only way you'd be able to play it with standard libraries is if you get a direct show filter for .mov.

quicktime alternative is one such filter.

6/6/2006 9:10:11 PM

Quote :

".NET is free to use What's stopping you?"

Just recently gotten back into VB, don't know much at all - is this Express Edition the only free version available? Is it capable of what I need it to do?

6/6/2006 10:25:38 PM

Express edition can do pretty much everything except source control and unit testing.

6/6/2006 10:26:54 PM

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/archive/en-us/directx9_c_Summer_03/directX/htm/controllingthefiltergraphinvisualbasic.asp

6/6/2006 10:31:01 PM

yea you should really migrate to .NET

6/7/2006 12:51:25 AM

That managed code thing is too good but too late.

Microsoft could have beat Java years ago.

6/7/2006 12:55:23 AM

no they couldn't. they have this nice product now because of the inroads java carved.

6/7/2006 9:18:32 AM

I have to agree with Noen on this one.

.NET as a platform is superior to Java but for the most part because they were able to learn from certain mistakes Java made and because they were able to seamlessly tie in a lot of existing functionality for the Win32 platform already (DCOM, MST, MSSQL, ASP) and jump ahead of Java for WebService deployment.

My early toying with JDWSDP (JSR 181 Annotations, JAXB 2.0, JAX-WS) shows that J2EE6 is going to have to play a lot of catchup to .NET 2.0

But the biggest advantage of .NET is also its biggest detractor. The CLR Framework is really really rich and able to do a lot quickly. However compared to Java - the 3rd party support just isn't there. At least not in the way of firmly established communities like Apache, Java.net, Codehaus, etc

6/7/2006 12:46:45 PM

I know Noen is gonna argue this

but who cares about inroads?

You have these IBM folks developing DB2 and Eclipse and Websphere etc in Java, along with other developers.

If .NET was available sooner, who'd develop Windows applications in Java?

6/7/2006 1:26:12 PM