A long time ago it was possible to work around hardware acceleration issues by playing the video at a different size. That is, a 1920x1080 playback would fail and a 1920x1081 would work. It was just a trick to force the player to use software instead of hardware.
> On Apr 9, 2020, at 2:36 PM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > This sounds like a bug we are currently fixing (hopefully in time for > 9.6-DP-4) - the android player doesn’t currently play nicely with accelerated > rendering... Turning that off should mean things play properly. > > We use the system player object so MP4 should be fine. > > Warmest Regards, > > Mark. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On 9 Apr 2020, at 20:31, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode >> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >> >> I tried the browser widget: no audio, no video, white screen, no browser >> outline on Android. >> >> I tried a mobile browser (mobileControlCreate): audio plays, no video, white >> screen. >> >> So yeah, it looks like there's no codec. The widget on desktop doesn't play >> it either. If I ask the client to re-do the videos, what codec should I ask >> for? I was told that we had to use their existing videos, so I'm not even >> sure they will re-do them. >> >>> On 4/9/20 1:01 PM, Tom Glod via use-livecode wrote: >>> I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news here. :( >>> if its h264 the browser widget won't play it. If you saw video but no audio >>> then thats one thing.....but no video means the video codec is also absent. >>>> On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 1:57 PM J. Landman Gay via use-livecode < >>>> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >>>> They're kind of huge (like 400 MB) so I didn't copy them to my phone, but >>>> they play okay on Mac >>>> using Firefox and on Android using Chrome browser. I guess that doesn't >>>> tell us much. >>>> >>>> Swami suggested to me privately that he uses a browser widget to play >>>> videos so I will try that >>>> next. >>>> >>>> On 4/9/20 9:20 AM, Mark Talluto via use-livecode wrote: >>>>> What happens if you play the file locally on each device? >>>>> >>>>> -Mark >>>>> >>>>> On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 10:22 PM J. Landman Gay via use-livecode < >>>>> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Not sure what you mean by "an existing app" but my test app uses >>>>>> mobileControlCreate to set up >>>>>> a mobile player. When it accesses the video from my server, it's all >>>> black >>>>>> with no video or >>>>>> audio, and the nonexistent playback quits a few seconds in. >>>>>> >>>>>> I'm not sure whether these videos were created with streaming in mind. I >>>>>> vaguely remember we >>>>>> used to need to set a "streaming" checkbox when creating a video. Is >>>> that >>>>>> still required? >>>>>> >>>>>>>> -- >>>>>>>> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com >>>>>>>> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.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 >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com >>>> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.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 >>>> >> >> >> -- >> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com >> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
