Quick Play CM

QuickPlayCM 1.1 Copyright © 2003-2005 Hide Itoh <hide@pixture.com> All rights reserved. PIXTURE STUDIO <http://www.pixture.com> What is QuickPlayCM ? QuickPlayCM is a contextual menu plugin for Mac OS X. It let you play movies and other multimedia files that are supported by QuickTime without launching an application. It also has some other feature like adding thumbnail to the movie file, setting desktop picture from the current scene you are watching. IMPORTANT QuickPlayCM works with Mac OS X 10.3 (aka Panther) and does not work with 10.2.x (aka Jaguar) due to some problem of Jaguar's Finder. Features • It can display movies and any other multimedia files (that QuickTime supports) without launching any applications. • The format it supports are including but not limited to: QuickTime movie (.mov) Flash movie (.swf) Mpeg movie (.mpg) Mpeg4 movie (.mp4) GIF animation (.gif) MP3 music (.mp3) MP4 music with AAC codec (.m4p) --- requires QT 6.2 or later For more information about supported format, please check out the latest QuickTime document. • You can add thumbnail icons to the movie file from the scene you are watching. • You can set the desktop picture from the scene you are watching. • You can copy the current scene to the Clipboard as a PICT data. • Movie windows can be resized. • Easy enlarging/reducing view size by 25% step using toolbar buttons. Installation For your convenicence, simple AppleScript to install the QuickPlayCM is enclosed. Just run the 'InstallQuickPlayCM' script to install and follow the direction on the screen. You can manually install the QuickPlayCM by copying 'QuickPlayCM.plugin' package to either '/ Library/Contextual Menu Items' folder or '~/Library/Contextual Menu Items' folder. If you don't have '~/Library/Contextual Menu Items' folder, simply create a new folder and copy it there. In this case, you need to either restart computer, or logout and login again, or restart the Finder to use the QuickPlayCM. How to use? Choose movies or other mutilimedia file(s) at the Finder and Control+Click the mouse to bring up the contextual menu. You will see 'QuickPlay...' contextual menu item. Then select the QuickPlay menu to open movie window as below. How to use (1) Viewing movies When you select 'QuickPlay' contextual menu item, a window (see below) appears on the screen and display the first movie. The title bar of the window shows the file name and the current file number / number of total selected files. Below the movie is the QuickTime's standard movie controller. As default, QuickPlayCM does not automatically start the movie, so start the mo…