The Movie Toolbox provides functions that allow your application to manipulate these default settings. You can use the GetMoviePreferredRate and SetMoviePreferredRate functions to work with a movie's default playback rate. You can use the GetMoviePreferredVolume and SetMoviePreferredVolume functions to work with the default sound volume of a movie. The Movie Toolbox also provides a number of functions that allow you to change other settings when you play a movie. The SetMoviePreferredRate function allows your application to specify a movie's default playback rate.
Positive integers indicate forward rates and negative integers indicate reverse rates.
Your application can obtain the preferred playback rate by calling the GetMoviePreferredRate function, which is described in the next section. You can set the current playback rate of a movie by calling the SetMovieRate function, which is described on SetMovieRate . The GetMoviePreferredRate function returns a movie's default playback rate. This is the rate that the StartMovie function uses when it starts playing a movie. Positive integers indicate forward rates and negative integers indicate reverse rates.