Mark Talluto wrote:
On Jun 4, 2015, at 5:06 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Besides, RunRev has already decided to support media playback on
Linux. The only new question I'm raising here is whether it needs
to wait for The Ultimate Widget, or could we please have a few
lines of C++ to tide us over for the next year or so.
Fully understood. I know you have a bug/enhancement report on this.
What is the status from LiveCode?
Very good new on the Windows front: somewhere between the last time I
tested and now, #5886 appears fixed; both currentTime and startTime work
well in v7.0.5 under Windows 8.1 - many thanks to Panos Merakos at
RunRev for taking the time to follow up on this one.
"'start player' ignores currentTime w/dontuseQT"
<http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5886>
It would be helpful if anyone here has time to test that under Windows 7
or 8.0 to confirm there are no remaining issues with those versions either.
While reviewing player-related bugs I was also able to confirm that this
report submitted by another member here is apparently also fixed:
"Revolution plays WMV files unreliably"
<http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6342>
Trevor's comment #4 there notes the engine was using the deprecated MCI
interface at that time - might that have changed since then?
I tested WMV, MP3, AIFF, and a few other formats, and they seem to play
well in v7.0.5 under Win 8.1.
I was also unable to reproduce this one, though again it would be
helpful if others here have a chance to test under Win 7 or 8.0 to confirm:
"Movies on network volumes can't used with player object"
<http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7209>
Unfortunately the most popular codecs do not work in 7.0.5 under Win 8.1:
"Support mp4 and h264 without QuickTime"
<http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8963>
Still, good progress on the Windows side, and hopefully those codecs can
be supported without much effort. The MP4 files I tested with play well
in the Windows Media Player app, so we know the OS includes the codecs
needed.
As for Linux, the crasher I reported has been confirmed:
<http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14427>
I haven't heard anything from the team directly, but the activity on
#5886 suggests that they're reviewing at least some video issues, and we
know that crashers tend to get priority.
With any luck, once the crash is resolved we'll be able to make sure
currentTime and startTime work as well on Linux as they do on Mac and
Windows now, and with that I'll be able to do what I need with video for
now.
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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