Re: Playing movies in LC_ Docs??
Thank you, Paul! William A. Prothero https://earthlearningsolutions.org > On Aug 20, 2020, at 3:38 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode > wrote: > > Yes, there is a lot of information that circulates on the forums or lists or > in people's head that probably should be in the LC documentation > > In the LC9.x.x series, the Player supports any audio or video formats > supported by Apple Video Foundation (AVF) on macOS - google the apple > developer docs for AVF formats supported by macOS version. The Player > supports any audio of video formats supported by DirectShow on Windows. > Google DirectShow formats supported to find those. > > NOTE while there is over lap, there are also formats supported only on one > platform or the other. > > Also, unfortunately, if you are planning on doing anything more complex that > placing a video in a player and letting the user play it, you should search > the LiveCode quality center for player bugs - there are many dozens. Some > minor, some more serious. > > > > On 8/20/2020 6:15 PM, William Prothero via use-livecode wrote: >> Folks: >> I’m building an app that needs to play movies. It’s a desktop app that I >> need to work on Mac and Windows. But, when looking at the dictionary and the >> lessons, all I get is references to Quicktime and the dictionary is >> hopelessly uninformative about what formats are required. >> >> I haven’t done this in a while. But, when I searched my emails from the >> users list, the most recent reference I have is 2016. What the heck? The >> dictionary entries are ancient and the lesson is totally useless. Sorry if >> I’m being critical about this, but “what the heck is up with movie >> players??”. Have I missed something? I really hope so. >> >> Best, >> Bill >> >> William A. Prothero >> https://earthlearningsolutions.org >> >> >> ___ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > ___ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Playing movies in LC_ Docs??
Yes, there is a lot of information that circulates on the forums or lists or in people's head that probably should be in the LC documentation In the LC9.x.x series, the Player supports any audio or video formats supported by Apple Video Foundation (AVF) on macOS - google the apple developer docs for AVF formats supported by macOS version. The Player supports any audio of video formats supported by DirectShow on Windows. Google DirectShow formats supported to find those. NOTE while there is over lap, there are also formats supported only on one platform or the other. Also, unfortunately, if you are planning on doing anything more complex that placing a video in a player and letting the user play it, you should search the LiveCode quality center for player bugs - there are many dozens. Some minor, some more serious. On 8/20/2020 6:15 PM, William Prothero via use-livecode wrote: Folks: I’m building an app that needs to play movies. It’s a desktop app that I need to work on Mac and Windows. But, when looking at the dictionary and the lessons, all I get is references to Quicktime and the dictionary is hopelessly uninformative about what formats are required. I haven’t done this in a while. But, when I searched my emails from the users list, the most recent reference I have is 2016. What the heck? The dictionary entries are ancient and the lesson is totally useless. Sorry if I’m being critical about this, but “what the heck is up with movie players??”. Have I missed something? I really hope so. Best, Bill William A. Prothero https://earthlearningsolutions.org ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Playing movies in LC_ Docs??
Folks: I’m building an app that needs to play movies. It’s a desktop app that I need to work on Mac and Windows. But, when looking at the dictionary and the lessons, all I get is references to Quicktime and the dictionary is hopelessly uninformative about what formats are required. I haven’t done this in a while. But, when I searched my emails from the users list, the most recent reference I have is 2016. What the heck? The dictionary entries are ancient and the lesson is totally useless. Sorry if I’m being critical about this, but “what the heck is up with movie players??”. Have I missed something? I really hope so. Best, Bill William A. Prothero https://earthlearningsolutions.org ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Playing movies
Hi, Bill. Seems the whole LC community is in a state of frustration regarding this. But one minimal method I find works to play an online movie is to embed a movie url in a LC field with the linkStyle set to "link". Then add to your stack a script... on linkClicked pLink launch url pLink end linkClicked (Fine print: linkClicked does not work except in Browse mode, the field must be locked and it must have its listBehavior property set to false.) I don't know of a way to find out from the browser when the movie has finished, so I wait for the resumeStack message to fire indicating the user has returned and, presumably, the movie is done. If you prefer an icon to a text link, perhaps you can embed a graphic in the field and link from that. (I haven't tried that, but you get extra credit if you make it work!) HTH, Tom B. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Playing-movies-tp4702069p4702077.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Playing movies
By the way, I note that the dictioary mentions Quicktime VR. I thought that was completely gone. I have some Quicktime VR movies that could be nice to include in my current work, but no use putting them in if it’sat EOL or defunct. Best, Bill > On Mar 6, 2016, at 12:42 PM, William Prothero <proth...@earthednet.org> wrote: > > Folks: > There has been discussion about a movie player being updated on the list. My > question is: how should I play a simple movie in a livecode standalone? I > don’t want to be dependent on Quicktime as I understand it is going obsolete > and Windows users would need to download Quicktime. > > At least, I could play it in a browser window, but I wonder what’s the latest > and greatest way? > > Best, > Bill > > William Prothero, Ph.D. > University of California, Santa Barbara, Emeritus > proth...@earthednet.org > > > > > ___ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Playing movies
Folks: There has been discussion about a movie player being updated on the list. My question is: how should I play a simple movie in a livecode standalone? I don’t want to be dependent on Quicktime as I understand it is going obsolete and Windows users would need to download Quicktime. At least, I could play it in a browser window, but I wonder what’s the latest and greatest way? Best, Bill William Prothero, Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara, Emeritus proth...@earthednet.org ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Problems with movies in latest LiveCode versions
On Mar 20, 2015, at 5:06 PM, stgoldb...@aol.com wrote: The problem is the same regardless of whether the script mentioned below is applied. Namely, I can't get a player object to remember a relative path to a movie. As soon as I try to put a relative path into the player control LiveCode immediately changes it to an absolute path when using LiveCode versions in the 6-7 series. I don't have this problem with the Image Area control. It may help to see if other users are having the same problem. I ask users who are using LiveCode in the 6-7 series to see what happens if they place a player on a card and then try to put a relative path to a movie into the player's property inspector. Does LiveCode immediately change it to an absolute path? If other users do not have this problem, I'll have to look for some other problem at my end. I have not had this problem with Livecode 5.5.3. Stephen, I’ve noticed this, too, and reported it. See bug #14435 at http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14435. The last status update from the engineering team indicated that it is “AWAITING_BUILD”. It may help for you to add your comments to this bug. I think the reason that it doesn’t crop up more may be that most people tend set the filepath of a player object as an absolute, rather than a relative, filepath. That is what I do most of the time, but on occasion I’ll just set the defaultFolder then set the filepath of the player to a relative path. The latter thing is what stopped working in 6.7 and later. I haven’t seen the fix come through yet, although I admit I have yet to download and test the latest 6.7.4 and 7.0.4 RC releases. Regards, Devin Devin Asay Learn to code with LiveCode University https://livecode.com/store/education/ ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Problems with movies in latest LiveCode versions
Since I use a lot of movies in my stacks, I have gone back to LiveCode 5.5.3. I’ve tried LiveCode versions 6.7 through 7.04 and they do not display movies properly. For one thing, when I try to set a file path to a relative path, the later LiveCode versions do not allow me to save the relative path, but instead immediately convert the relative path back to an absolute path. Moreover, the movies only appear unpredictably. In LiveCode 5.5.3 and beyond, the movieClip does not function correctly. While the movieClip Property Inspector has a Size and Position section for setting the location of the movieClip, this does not work. I’m using Mac system 10.9.5. While I appreciate the efforts of the LiveCode team for upgrading the abilities of LiveCode, I think that when it comes to a basic control like a Player object not functioning, this affects LiveCode’s reputation for reliability, and the problem needs to be addressed. Stephen Goldberg, President Medmaster Publishing Co. www.medmaster.net ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Problems with movies in latest LiveCode versions
Since I use a lot of movies in my stacks, I have gone back to LiveCode 5.5.3. I’ve tried LiveCode versions 6.7 through 7.04 and they do not display movies properly. For one thing, when I try to set a file path to a relative path, the later LiveCode versions do not allow me to save the relative path, but instead immediately convert the relative path back to an absolute path. Moreover, the movies only appear unpredictably. Not sure if this will help you, but I found this is easy to workaround, just add something like… set fileName of player myPlayer to ./movies/myMovie.mov …to the openCard handler of the card that holds the movie, or the control that loads the movie, obviously the path will need to be the correct relative path. LC will still convert it to the absolute path, but at least it will be correct, especially if the stack and movies are moved to a different location before being opened. I would expect this should also improve the unpredictably too. In LiveCode 5.5.3 and beyond, the movieClip does not function correctly. While the movieClip Property Inspector has a Size and Position section for setting the location of the movieClip, this does not work. I’m using Mac system 10.9.5. I tried, but can't re-create this problem, the Property Inspector - Size and Position work fine as far as I can see, I am on OS X 10.10.2, but I doubt that would be a platform version issue. Hopefully somebody else could try this on 10.9.5 to confirm. While I appreciate the efforts of the LiveCode team for upgrading the abilities of LiveCode, I think that when it comes to a basic control like a Player object not functioning, this affects LiveCode’s reputation for reliability, and the problem needs to be addressed. Have you reported the problem via the LC Quality Control centre? http://quality.runrev.com In my experience it's well worth trying. Paul ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Movies ?
It's fantasy time again. I was musing on export/write to file a sequence of images as, either, an animated GIF, or a .mov/.avi file. I could just load the image sequence into Quicktime Pro and press button A: but that would not work in, say, a stack/standalone that would generate a film for an end-user automatically. Clever people might be able to automate Quicktime from inside LC, but that presupposes the end-user has Quicktime Pro on their machine. Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Movies ?
Hi Richmond, I have used the Enhanced QT external to create Snapper Screen Recorder. Additionally, there are severa image2movie utilities. There are also command line utilities such as ffmpeg, which can do this. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Use Color Converter to convert CMYK, RGB, RAL, XYZ, H.Lab and other colour spaces. http://www.color-converter.com Buy my new book Programming LiveCode for the Real Beginner http://qery.us/3fi LiveCode on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/runrev/ On 2/10/2014 11:29, Richmond wrote: It's fantasy time again. I was musing on export/write to file a sequence of images as, either, an animated GIF, or a .mov/.avi file. I could just load the image sequence into Quicktime Pro and press button A: but that would not work in, say, a stack/standalone that would generate a film for an end-user automatically. Clever people might be able to automate Quicktime from inside LC, but that presupposes the end-user has Quicktime Pro on their machine. Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: [OT] Repository of Movies in hundreds of formats
Ick. Bob On Jun 3, 2012, at 1:05 PM, Richmond wrote: http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/V-codecs/ ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: [OT] Repository of Movies in hundreds of formats
this is a fantastic resource. Why 'ICK', Bob? thanks Richmond, the link is going into my Script Scrapbook. On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com wrote: Ick. Bob On Jun 3, 2012, at 1:05 PM, Richmond wrote: http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/V-codecs/ ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode -- Stephen Barncard San Francisco Ca. USA more about sqb http://www.google.com/profiles/sbarncar ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: [OT] Repository of Movies in hundreds of formats
Too doggone many. I had no idea there were that many. If I had to write a player that accepted all those I would just give up. Bob On Jun 4, 2012, at 11:50 AM, stephen barncard wrote: this is a fantastic resource. Why 'ICK', Bob? thanks Richmond, the link is going into my Script Scrapbook. On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com wrote: Ick. Bob On Jun 3, 2012, at 1:05 PM, Richmond wrote: http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/V-codecs/ ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode -- Stephen Barncard San Francisco Ca. USA more about sqb http://www.google.com/profiles/sbarncar ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: [OT] Repository of Movies in hundreds of formats
It's just a reference to all the formats that ever were - with examples for testing. One never know what one might run into for a project. I wouldn't try to be compatible with most of these. m4v / h264 serves most of my web needs, and FLV when I really have to. On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com wrote: Too doggone many. I had no idea there were that many. If I had to write a player that accepted all those I would just give up. Bob Stephen Barncard San Francisco Ca. USA more about sqb http://www.google.com/profiles/sbarncar ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
[OT] Repository of Movies in hundreds of formats
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