Multimedia Programming
Playing Videos
Starting a player application
Once you know the command line and parameters you can use TProcessUTF8 to start the player:
<Delphi> uses
Classes, ..., LCLProc, UTF8Process;
...
implementation
procedure TMainForm.Button1Click(Sender: TObject); var
Player: TProcessUTF8;
begin
Player:=TProcessUTF8.Create(nil); try Player.CommandLine:=PathToPlayer+' '+ParametersAndMediaFile; Player.Execute; finally Player.Free; end;
end; </Delphi>
For example to start under Linux the mplayer to play a video use:
<Delphi> uses
Classes, ..., FileUtil, LCLProc, UTF8Process;
...
implementation
procedure TMainForm.Button1Click(Sender: TObject); var
Player: TProcessUTF8; Filename: String; PlayerPath: String; PlayerParams: String;
begin
Filename:='/home/username/video.mpg'; PlayerPath:=FindDefaultExecutablePath('mplayer'); PlayerParams:='"'+Filename+'"'; Player:=TProcessUTF8.Create(nil); try Player.CommandLine:=PlayerPath+' '+PlayerParams; Player.Execute; finally Player.Free; end;
end; </Delphi>
VFW - Video for Windows
Capturing and playing video streams from TV cards and webcams under Windows the VFW API can be used with SysRec.
MPlayer for Linux gtk2/X
mplayer is an open source and free movie player. There is a LCL control embedding the mplayer, so you can built your own movie players or just play a video in your application. You can download it here:
svn co https://lazarus-ccr.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/lazarus-ccr/components/mplayer mplayer
Playing Sounds
Using the Audio Component Suite
Read the page about the Audio Component Suite
Using the OpenAL Library
A tutorial for Delphi can be found here: [1]
Free Pascal comes with a unit for accessing OpenAL located in fpc/packages/openal as well as usage examples
BASS
The BASS library can be downloaded from: http://www.un4seen.com/ and http://www.un4seen.com/forum/?topic=8682.0
There is a DJ application, for Windows and Linux, written with Lazarus and using Bass lib: http://members.lycos.co.uk/mixk/
Audiere Library
Has bindings for Delphi, but they don't work with FPC:
- http://www.casteng.com/whypascal.shtml
- http://www.afterwarp.net/resources/soundlib
- http://code.google.com/p/audiere-bind-delphi/
Audorra Library
Works fine with Lazarus:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/audorra/
OMEGA Engine
The OMAGE Engine is a full game engine in single Omega.dll file which is just 50kb. It can successfully play FLAC,OGG,MP3,MP2,AMR and WMA files. It searches and uses installed audio codecs from the system.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/omega-engine/files/
The project is dead, but is very easy to use:
<delphi> Media_Play('Music.mp3', TRUE); </delphi>
SDL + SDL_mixer
The basic SDL library comes with a very simple sound system. On top of that, SDL mixer adds more sound APIs which build a more flexible solution.
FMOD
Is a closed source solution. It is free for use for non-comercial software, but requires the payment of licenses for commercial software.
Squall sound
Squall sound works fine with FPC. It has 3D audio and EAX effects, but just supports MP3, OGG and WAV formats.