The Movie Player provides two functions you can use to check the animation status without actually advancing the movie frames.
The mmpAnimStatus function reports the animation status but does not perform any animation tasks. The mmpAnimStatus function has the following syntax:
int mmpAnimStatus(idMovie)
The function returns an animation-status flag. The return values are a subset of those used by mmpAnimate. See the Programmer's Reference for a description of the mmpAnimStatus return values.
The mmpAnimStopped function indicates whether the movie is stopped. It has the following syntax:
BOOL mmpAnimStopped(idMovie)
It returns TRUE if the animation is stopped; FALSE if animation is running.