QMedia 1.2.6 review

QMedia is the plug-in that allows 4D applications to include, play back, edit and integrate tightly with all digital media types supported by QuickTime, Apple's award-winning, industry standard, multimedia technology.

License: Demo OS: Mac OS X File size: 1731K Developer: Escape Buy Now Price: $135.00 Updated: 22 May 2006

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QMedia is the plug-in that allows 4D applications to include, play back, edit and integrate tightly with all digital media types supported by QuickTime, Apple's award-winning, industry standard, multimedia technology. QMedia broadens the spectrum of applications that 4D developers can address by transforming 4th Dimension into a multimedia container and content development environment. Applications written with QMedia can be deployed accross platforms, as well as in heterogeneous client-server configurations.

If all you need to do with multimedia is playback, try QMediaLight; it's a subset of QMedia dedicated to media playback. QMediaLight combines the versatility and power of QuickTime with a compact, fit-to-purpose command set and attractive pricing.

Limitations:
Without a license key the plug-ins work in evaluation mode for 30 min, enough to see how they work or even run a demo. For another 30 min, restart 4D.

What's New:
4D 2003.2 changed the way it draws plug-in areas and this caused update problems in the movie plug-in area. Fixed.
Identified and corrected a potential issue where the developer license would not be copied to the compiled structure when building compiled or standalone applications with 4D 2003.x.
Restored compatibility with Win NT/SP6a.
Long path names are now supported on Win NT.
It was possible to crash on 4D Server when a client was logging out if at that time the licenses dialog was open. Fixed.

Requirements:
4D 6.06 to 2004.