Error playing MP3 on Linux as Videoclips

[Richard Gaskin]

  Alejandro Tejada wrote:

> On Ubuntu, Are you seeing an mplayer error while
> playing mp3 files inside LiveCode?
>
> LiveCode 7.0.2 (RC1) in Ubuntu launch mplayer
> to play sounds and videos.
> As soon a video or audio stops playing, LiveCode
> shuts down mplayer, except after playing MP3 media.
>
> Everytime that I play a MP3 file using:
>
> play vc mymp3file.mp3
>
> mplayer open and play the sound, but
> after checking Task Manager, mplayer
> is still open. This only happen after
> playing mp3 files.
>
> Are you seeing this error while playing mp3 files
> on Ubuntu using LiveCode?

I haven't tried that specific recipe, but I rarely have good results 
with multimedia playback in LC, even as all the other playback tools I 
use in Ubuntu perform marvelously, often handling more formats more 
gracefully than Mac's QuickTime.

Related, I just discovered that merely setting the filename of a player 
object to an MP3 causes LC to hang:
<http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14427>

In my dream world every member of the IDE team would be required to 
spend at least one day each week on Mac, Windows, and Linux, with the 
remainder spent on whichever system they prefer.

Given that one of the strongest selling points of LiveCode is platform 
independence, I believe this practice would allow platform-specific 
issues to be identified and resolved much faster than through any other 
means.

And given that issues are generally less expensive to fix the earlier in 
the process they're discovered, this would likely be very cost-effective 
as well.

-- 
  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Systems
  Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
  ____________________________________________________________________
  Ambassador at FourthWorld.com                http://www.FourthWorld.com