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My PC is currently running Windows 10 Pro. I have Klite CODEC Pack 19.0.1 Standard installed. When I attempt to install MediaFoundation on my W10 Pro machine I get an error message that the update is not applicable.

Hello Piero,

That worked. Thank you.

However, why should I have to do that since 6.20 worked with any video? Is there something else that needs to be done inside PB to make it work like 6.20?

How can I "install" ffmpeg so that Windows knows where to find it and its libraries?

I have a program which plays videos using v6.20. They do not play using v6.21. I am using Windows 10 pro. The video files I use are mostly .mp4. I have version 19.0.1 of KLight installed and version 12 of Direct X.

Using the example program that comes with PB (movie.pb) slightly modified so I can ...

Does PB have a way to access a file via a shortcut? FileSize (ShortcutName$) returns -1.
I tried searching the forum and did not find anything helpful.

Is there a way to get the x and y coordinates of individual lines of text within a gadget?

Just 2D in Windows. I want to determine on which entry within a list box the user did a right-click without having to select it first with a left-click.

I have successfully used DesktopResolutionX and other Desktop functions to scale the gadgets on my primary desktop. I have three desktop monitors of differing resolutions. Two of the monitors are projectors. When I project on one of them, the image fills the screen. The same image on the other ...

Is it possible to change the justification of a TextGadget dynamically? The only forum entries I found say no, but they are 10 yrs old.

Thank you Shardik, that works. I did shrink the code for Windows only:

Procedure Justify ( WhichGadget, Justification )
Define i

WhichGadget = GadgetID ...

Thank you Bisonte and HeXOR. I was not aware of the scaling functions - so many features to read about!

Hi Bisonte,
Thank you for the reply. How do I scale it and how do I detect that it needs scaling?

I have a program that displays four Editor gadgets across my screen. The size of the gadgets is determined by using ExamineDesktops with
DesktopX(0), DesktopWidth(0) and DesktopHeight(0). I then calculate the size and position for each gadget using these values. On my desktop PC and my laptop, both ...

Can I display special characters, such as © and ®, in an editor gadget?

It seems like several responses point to using VLClib. Can someone please show me how to add it to my PB and then how to use it? I now have two requirements that VLC may be able to do:
1) real time video from a USB camera
2) show a video from the web

Has someone already implemented a port of VLClib ...

Is there a way to get the line number of the cursor position in an editor gadget?

Is it possible for PB to play a movie from a DVD?

My application shows a movie on three screens. In order to ensure that the sound is synchronized at all three locations I execute the following sequence of instructions for each monitor:
Movie_nID = LoadMovie ( #PB_Any, FileName )
MovieAudio (Movie_nID , volume, 0 )
ResizeMovie (Movie_nID , 0, 0 ...