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Re: MoviePresenter vs. MoviePlayer display quality

At 11:25 AM -0800 1/28/02, Bill Stewart wrote:
The MoviePresenter goes through an intermediary rendering, whereas
MoviePlayer goes directly to the screen. You'd have to provide more details
to understand what the problem is (there are inherent limitations for both
objects that you'd need to understand to use them properly)

One place where the quality difference is very noticeable is when a movie is scaled down. MoviePresenter does a very nice area-averaging filter, which makes scaled-down movies look great. On the other hand, by default MoviePlayer just drops pixels.

You can get nice scaling behaviour using MoviePlayer, but that requires using Movie.setPlayHints. If you tried Movie.setPlayHints and it didn't improve the quality, you might try calling Media.setPlayHints on your video media. I seem to have a vague recollection of some cases where Movie.setPlayHints appeared to have no effect and you had to set the highQuality flag directly on the media.

Good luck,

Eric Smith
Tarkvara Design Inc.

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 >Re: MoviePresenter vs. MoviePlayer display quality (From: Bill Stewart <email@hidden>)



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