Problem with playing video

[pkmittal]

Hi, I am using Player Object to play the video. I have tried with 2 file types .mp4 and .mov

In some of the windows computer, it works fine (Win 7 and win10). Those computers have windows media players, real time player, etc installed..so perhaps all the necessary codecs

but in some it does not work (win 7 and 10). (it has nothing to do with windows 7 and windows 10). Real time player etc is not installed in these machines..

I can play the video manually but not through livecode exe in some of the computers. Are there any pre-reqiste sofware which has to be installed on computer to play video via live code exe? I thought that you need quick time player when you want to play inside live code but not when you want to run exe.

Could you please help? I am using simple code..

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 put the defaultfolder & "/FEData/" into dataPath
put (datapath & msgNo & ".mov") into videoPath
   set the filename of player playerName of stack "FE" to videoPath
   start player playerName of stack "FE"

[Klaus]

Hi pkmittal,

Quicktime needs to be installed on the target computer(s)!
Is this the case? Real Time player does not matter.


Best

Klaus

[pkmittal]

Thanks.. but we can not ask users to install quick time on windows to test the program.. is there any work around for this problem?

[Klaus]

Hi pkmittal,

hm, some formats can be played without QuickTIme, but this is unfortunately not reliable

Add this on preopenstack:
...
## Tell LC to NOT try to use QT
set the dontuseqt to TRUE
...
and then use player objects with MP4 files, it may work!
MOV files will definitively only work with QT!

Remember that the controller bar is a QT feature, so you may
have to create your own controller if neccessary.

Good luck!


Best

Klaus

P.S.
Scotland is working on a solution for Windows media playback without QT,
but that may take while...

[studawg66]

Klaus is correct that it MAY work, but not reliably. QT was very reliable, but alas, that looks to be going away immediately for Windows users.
I have an app that used QT to play a multicast stream via SDP file and it worked fine even when logged out and running as the screensaver. Now that I'm trying to force it to use WMP, it will play SOME files when logged in, but NONE when logged out. So you may be lucky enough to get WMP to work but the vast majority of us are probably stuck waiting on Scotland to issue a fix of some sort. Hope they act quickly!

[pkmittal]

Thanks. In some computer, it works and some it does not work when quick time player is installed..

Is there any format which can work on all machine without installing any thing?

[Klaus]

Hi all,

in case you missed this good news from todays mailing list:
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I intended to provide an update on this a little while back but forget,
apologies. The new player for Windows, which uses DirectShow within the
existing player object instead of QuickTIme will be in 8.1, with a DP
build either next week or in three weeks time depending on how various
things go.

Kind regards,

Kevin

Kevin Miller ~ kevin@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/
LiveCode: Everyone can create apps
#############################################################

Best

Klaus

[stam]

I’m experiencing an issue with playing videos on this platform. The video either fails to load or constantly buffers, making it difficult to watch. I’ve tried refreshing the page, clearing my cache, and even switching browsers, but the problem persists. It seems like a platform issue rather than a local one. Has anyone else faced similar problems or found a solution? Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!

Hey @Klaus, how's your spamdar these days

[Klaus]

Sorry, no idea what you are talking about?

[stam]

Sorry, no idea what you are talking about?