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=== Methods === | === Methods === |
Revision as of 19:51, 2 July 2014
Introduction
TMPlayerControl is a LCL control that embeds "mplayer" - a movie player available on several platforms. TMPlayerControl only works under X/gtk2 and Windows. TMPlayerControl can be used to play any mplayer supported video or audio file.
Authors
Mattias Gaertner (package maintainer)
Michael Koecher (contributor)
Mike Thompson (contributor)
License
Modified LGPL (same as FPC RTL and Lazarus LCL).
Download
The latest stable release can be found at svn:
svn co https://lazarus-ccr.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/lazarus-ccr/components/mplayer mplayer
mplayer, and additional codecs, can be downloaded from http://www.mplayerhq.hu/. The additional codecs must be installed separately, but are not necessary for many common formats.
Caveat
This wiki was written for mplayer 0.1.2. At the time of writing, the patch for mplayer 0.1.2 has not been accepted/applied.
Usage
The control can be dropped on any form, and represents the video playback area.
mplayer must be available on the end user system. Either installed with the mplayer folder being in the PATH environment variable, or with the MPlayerPath property pointing to the mplayer executable. TMPlayerControl only implements a very small set of mplayer features: Play, Stop, Pause, Loop, Volume, Duration, Position and GrabImage. TMPlayerControl sets a minor selection of mplayer properties at run time. Additional parameters can be set via StartParam. See http://mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1.html#GENERAL%20OPTIONS for a full list of available parameters. TMPlayerControl controls mplayer in slave mode. For a full list of available slave comamnds visit http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/tech/slave.txt or enter the following at the command prompt.
mplayer -input cmdlist
Slave commands can be sent directly to mplayer after multimedia is loaded (i.e. after calling Play) by using SendMPlayerCommand(Cmd: string);
Example
In the examples folder, see FullFeatured\mplayerTestHarness.lpr for a full demonstration of TMPlayerControl capabilities, as well as additional functionality for querying mplayer for available commands.
Methods
Method | Description |
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function FindMPlayerPath : Boolean; | TMPlayerControl searches for mplayer in the PATH or in a subfolder of the application called "mplayer". Returns True if found |
property MPlayerPath: string; | Full path to the mplayer executable. Either populated by FindMPlayerPath, or programmatically |
property StartParam: string; | Any additional parameters to be sent to mplayer before the multimedia file is initialised.see http://mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1.html#GENERAL%20OPTIONS for a full set of available parameters |
property Filename: string; | The multimedia file to be played |
procedure Play; | All the above must be configured correct before this command is called. This initialises mplayer, putting it into slave mode with the file loaded. mplayer will automatically start playing the file. |
procedure Stop; | This stops the video file playing, which in turn stops mplayer. After this is called, many of the properties will no longer be available. |
property Loop: integer; | This instructs mplayer to loop the video. -1 no, 0 forever, 1 once, 2 twice, ... |
property Paused: boolean; | Is the file paused? |
function Running: boolean; | Is mplayer running? |
function Playing: boolean; | Is mplaying running with a file loaded? There is only a small window in time between the file stopping and mplayer itself stopping running. |
property ImagePath: string; | The folder you want captured image grabs to be saved in. |
procedure GrabImage; | Instruct mplayer to grab an image. In testing, success of this call is dependent upon a combination of the codec mplayer is using, and the renderer being used. Under windows, optimal results were returned with the direct3d renderer (-vo direct3d) |
property LastImageFilename: String; | The filename of the last image grabbed. The filename of the last image grabbed is also passed as a parameter to the OnGrabImage event. |
property Volume: integer; | 0 = mute. 100 = max |
property Rate: single; | Playback rate. 1 = normal speed. mplayer allows values between 0.1 and 100 (i.e. no reverse) |
property Duration: single; | The length of the loaded video file in seconds. |
property Position: single; | The current position of the video file in seconds. This information is queried every half second, so during playback at normal speed, there is only a half second accuracy. |
property VideoInfo: TVideoInfo; | Only populated after OnPlay event. Record containing Codec, bitrate, width, height etc |
property AudioInfo: TAudioInfo; | Only populated after OnPlay event. Recording containing Codec, SampleRate, Bitrate etc. |
procedure SendMPlayerCommand(Cmd: string); | Additional commands can be sent directly to mplayer, and the results can be queried with the OnFeedback event. See http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/tech/slave.txt for a full list of available commands |
Events
The following events are available:
Event | Description |
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OnPlay | This event is broadcast immediately after mplayer finishes initialising the file to be played. At the point this event is launched the VideoInfo and AudioInfo records will be populated |
OnPlaying | This event is broadcast regularly while the multimedia file is playing. You can use this event to keep a TTrackbar synchronised with the playback |
OnStop | This event is broadcast when the multimedia file stops. As soon as this event is launched the VideoInfo and AudioInfo records are cleared |
OnFeedback | mplayer is polled frequently by TMPlayerControl. Most text output on the standard console will be available through the TStringList parameter. Some housekeeping information (such as the frequent requests for video position) are removed from this TStringList parameter. |
OnError | mplayer is polled frequently by TMPlayerControl. All text output on the error console will be available through the TStringList parameter. |
OnGrabImage | This event is raised following an GrabImage request. If successfull, then the filename to the image is returned. |
OnClick, OnMouseUp, OnMouseDown, OnMouseWheel | Standard LCL events |