Re: Playing movies in LC_ Docs??

[William Prothero via use-livecode]

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
>> 
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Re: Playing movies in LC_ Docs??

[Paul Dupuis via use-livecode]

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


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Re: Playing movies

[tbodine]

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.



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Re: Playing movies

[William Prothero]

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  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
> 
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