Mac Forum / Programming / CodeWarrior / May 2004

Hello everyone

Here is this very strange problem coming with conversion of .mov
files.

The situation is as follows .

I am writing an application in VC++
I am writing a batch media converter and accepting mov files as input.
I am able to add the mov files for the batch conversion and even
retrive its video and audio properties using QuickTime API's. Once i
start converting mov files i.e is using ConvertMovieToFile and i try
to add some other file .mov file again in the conversion list none of
the QuickTime API's return and ultimately my application hangs.
Neither does the conversion proceed nor any of the QuickTime API's
that i have used to get the properties.

Note : If i just convert the files and then try and add the same files
it works fine, but not when conversion is going on.
The conversion also works fine alone.

Where is the problem? I have initialized the QuickTime media layer and
the MovieToolBox once at the start of the application and
uninitialized it once at the end of the application. So it is not the
initialization that is causing a problem, since everything works fine
once the conversion is stopped.

Can someone plz see where the problem is.
Any help will be appreciated

Thanks in advance