Play m4a files on Windows 7

[Scott Rossi]

Which codec pack did you try?  I was just looking at K-Lite:
https://www.codecguide.com/download_kl.htm

And how many audio files are you talking about?  What type of content?  I
have to believe conversion to another format is possible.  Get a batch
convertor and process in bulk. I spoke to my brother who has been an audio
engineer for 2 decades and he says as long as you guys keep the sampling
rates/bit depths same, you'll only be changing format, and there shouldn't
be any loss in quality.

IMHO, even if you went to 192kps MP3, that's a pretty high bit rate, and
most "normal" people (non audio engineers) aren't going to notice any
difference in quality.

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, UX/UI Design




On 8/13/16, 12:57 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of J. Landman Gay"
<use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com on behalf of
jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:

>Yes, you're right. We're pretty much screwed then. All the universities
>have demanded that QT be removed from all site computers and our app
>depends on .m4a audio. There are too many audio files to convert to
>another format, and the audio guy refuses to do it anyway due to the
>quality degredation.
>
>We tried installing a codec pack but that didn't work either. We're in
>trouble.
>
>On 8/13/2016 2:09 PM, Peter Bogdanoff wrote:
>> I see that Ian Macphail says:
>> "We decided to overhaul the Windows player object, replacing the
>>existing Quicktime based implementation with one based on DirectShow,
>>which is fully supported on all current Windows versions.²
>> 
>>https://livecode.com/removing-quicktime-dependency-from-livecodes-player-
>>object/
>>
>> And the Microsoft page describing DirectShow¹s supported formats (a
>>rather limited list)-- .m4a is not one of them:
>> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms787745(VS.85).aspx
>>
>> I¹m very interested in this subject, especially when LC gets callbacks
>>working.
>>
>> Peter Bogdanoff
>> UCLA
>>
>>
>> On Aug 13, 2016, at 11:51 AM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
>>wrote:
>>
>>> On 8/9/2016 4:58 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
>>>> On 8/9/2016 4:26 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
>>>>> We need to play .m4a files on Windows 7 and up. Double-clicking one
>>>>>of
>>>>> those files plays back successfully on a Win 7 machine. Loading a
>>>>>player
>>>>> control with the URL to the file in LC on the same machine does not
>>>>>(LC
>>>>> 7.1.4).
>>>>>
>>>>> Is this fixable? Is there something users can install to make it
>>>>>work?
>>>>> Or do we need a more recent version of LC?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Poking around, it looks like I have to build in LC 8.1. If that's
>>>> correct, then it's risky, it isn't stable yet. Is there any other way?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I've done some tests on  both Windows 10 and Vista using LC 8.1 but
>>>m4a files still do not play when setting the filename of a player. They
>>>do play using WMP. This is becoming an urgent issue for my client and I
>>>need to get it working quickly. Does anyone know what we need to
>>>install, or how to get this working?
>>>
>>> Is anyone else able to play .m4a files on Windows using the new player
>>>object?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
>>> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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