RANT: LC6.7.4 and AVFoundation player

Monte Goulding monte at sweattechnologies.com
Mon Apr 20 19:54:16 EDT 2015


That sounds like a reportable bug rather than something to put in the release notes.

On 21 Apr 2015, at 7:01 am, Paul Dupuis <paul at researchware.com> wrote:
> In LC6.7.4 however, if you
> set the filename of player X to "C:/Users/.../Somemediafile.mov"
> and later
> put the filename of player X into tSomeFile
> tSomeFile now contains "file://C:/Users/.../Somemediafile.mov" which if
> you were trying to compare to another variable which had the same file
> name really f$%ks things up since the comparison fails.
> The adding of "file://" URI prefix just cost me an entire day of debugging.
> 
> This really really should have been something that was in the Release
> Notes dear folks at RunRev.

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