AW: AW: AW: AW: [OT]h.264 alternatives

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Mon Jul 24 11:42:32 EDT 2017


Tiemo Hollmann wrote:

 > Richard wrote:
 >> Tiemo Hollmann wrote:
 >> > I think the source of the problem that there is no standard codec
 >> > for h.264 on windows is, that LiveCode uses the almost deprecated
 >> > directShow API and not the current Microsoft media foundation API.
 >> > For MMF there probably is a standard codec for h.264 available on
 >> > the  > machine.
 >>
 >> I thought that was remedied with LC's new player object for Windows,
 >> no?
 >
 > No, the "new" player object is based on the old windows API :(

@LC Team:  Is that correct?  DirectShow is pretty old.  When will the 
update of the Win player object be completed to include modern APIs?

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