how to play WMV videos on Windows

[Ralf Bitter]

Hi Jacqueline,

the problem is that I have some interactive QuickTime movies which need
dontUseQT set to false but as soon as dontUseQT is set to false there seems
to be no way to play WMV files even if you set dontUseQT to true (of course
before any player or movie related action).


Ralf


On 23.03.2013, at 19:09, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:

> On 3/23/13 10:46 AM, Ralf Bitter wrote:
> 
>> Anyhow, I find the player object pretty frustrating and one should not
>> have to use Flash and revBrowser for a simple thing like playing video.
> 
> I thought LiveCode would use the native Windows API if dontUseQT was set to true. I think you have to do that on startup, because otherwise the app will load QT early in the startup process. I haven't ever had to do that but it is worth a try.
> 
> In the IDE you can turn off "Load QuickTime on startup" in the General pane in preferences while you're testing.
> 
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