MultimediaOpen (Function)

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MultimediaOpen (Function)

In french: MultimédiaOuvre

Opens a media file in a Multimedia control. The file is loaded in memory. To play the file, you must use MultimediaPlay.

Example

MyFile is string = "C:\My music\mysong.mp3"
MultimediaOpen(MM_Multimedia1, MyFile)

Syntax

<Result> = MultimediaOpen(<Multimedia control> , <File to open>)

<Result>: Boolean

True if the file was successfully opened,
False if an error occurred. To get more details on the error, use ErrorInfo.

<Multimedia control>: Control name

Name of Multimedia control used to play the media file.

<File to open>: Character string

Name and path of media file to open.
Corresponds to:
the name and path of media file to play.
a URL (to play the video in streaming).
a resource name (file name + extension) added to the application via the generation wizard.
Corresponds to:
the name and path of media file to play.
a video URL on a server. Remark: the YouTube videos cannot be played.
a resource name (file name + extension) added to the application via the generation wizard.

Remarks

Android specific features

By default, MultimediaPlay is a blocking function until the control is ready to play the file.
The MultimediaNonBlocking constant used with MultimediaPlay allows you to perform a non-locking load operation. In this case, the call to a Multimedia function (MultimediaPosition, ...) will fail as long as the media file is not loaded by the control.
The non-locking load operations are recommended when using media files not found on the device (online video for example).

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