Trouble playing videos with MS DirectShow LC 8

[Bleiler, Timothy]

Make sure your file references to the movie are relative and not absolute. I’ve made that mistake once or twice.

Tim Bleiler, Ph.D.
Instructional Designer, HSIT
University at Buffalo



> On Mar 7, 2017, at 7:07 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
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> Hello,
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> With LC 8.1.2 I changed the video standard in my programs from Quicktime to
> the new standard interface DirectShow on Windows. I recoded all videos to
> mp4 with Intel QSV H.264.
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> On my developing W10 machine everything works fine in the IDE and
> standalone. Now after release it looks like my developing machine is "the
> only one" which can play the new videos in my new LiveCode program.
> 
> On a W7, W8 and other W10 machine I get the error "could not create movie
> reference" when setting the filename of the player object.
> 
> Actually the DirectShow standard should be available from W7 to W10 and when
> just double clicking the video, it can be played on all those other machines
> with the standard video player, so it doesn't seem to be an codec issue. On
> the other hand something from the environment must be different on my
> developing machine.
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> I also tried to build a new standalone with LC 9.0 dp3, but testing the
> standalone it show the same issue.
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> Has anybody any idea, where to start searching?
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> What could be different on my developing machine as on all other machines?
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> Are there any known system requirements for using DirectShow? (which I have
> set unconsciously on my machine)
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> Thanks for any ideas
> 
> Tiemo
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