Problem with Player & Stream Audio.

[LCNeil]

Klaus is spot on when he mentioned that you can now set this property on player objects. This is taken from 6.7.6 release notes-

Ability to set the dontUseQT property for a player object (windows only) (6.7.6-rc-1)

It is now possible to set the dontUseQT property for a player object. On Windows,
the default value of the dontUseQt (global) property is false. This means that any
player object created will use the QuickTime API for multimedia playback. With this
new feature, you can set the dontUseQT property of a player to true, without changing
the value of the global dontUseQt property. In that way you can have both QuickTime
and non-QuickTime players playing at the same time.

Kind Regards,

Neil Roger
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LiveCode Support Team ~ http://www.livecode.com
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[Klaus]

Hi Neil, thank you very much!

[tomBTG]

Neil,

Thanks for that info. But QT has no future, so what's the long-term solution for multimedia on Windows? Are any current versions of LC running on Windows without QT able to support external audio and movie playback? (I have a Windows application in dev. that needs these capabilities, so I would appreciate any info on the best version/method that can do this without QT.)

Thanks,
Tom B.

[LCNeil]

Hi Tom,

We will be bringing a cross platform player object in the form of a widget. This will happen sometime within the LiveCode 8.0 development cycle. More information on this can be found here-

http://livecode.com/resources/roadmap/

Without using QT on windows (e.g dontUseQT), you are limited to a small number of default media formats as I believe the Windows MCI API player is used.

For best media playback (for now) I would recommend installing QuickTime

Kind Regards,

Neil Roger
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LiveCode Support Team ~ http://www.livecode.com
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