AW: Trouble playing videos with MS DirectShow LC 8

[J. Landman Gay]

Do the other machines have the mp4 codec installed? Most versions of 
Windows didn't ship with it, you had to install it separately.

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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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On March 7, 2017 9:32:22 AM Tiemo Hollmann TB via use-livecode 
<use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Making some further tests, I discovered that there must be a relation to mp4
> video files.
> I tested the same standalone with an old avi file and that worked, but not
> with some different mp4 files
> But it can't be something in general, because the mp4 file can be played
> fine with the same standalone on my W10 machine.
> So I am still searching for an idea, what could be different on my machine
> to "all" others.
>
> Tiemo
>
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> von Tiemo Hollmann TB via use-livecode
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 7. März 2017 13:07
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> Cc: Tiemo Hollmann TB <toolbook at kestner.de>
> Betreff: Trouble playing videos with MS DirectShow LC 8
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> I also tried to build a new standalone with LC 9.0 dp3, but testing the
> standalone it show the same issue.
>
>
>
> Has anybody any idea, where to start searching?
>
> What could be different on my developing machine as on all other machines?
>
> Are there any known system requirements for using DirectShow? (which I have
> set unconsciously on my machine)
>
>
>
> Thanks for any ideas
>
> Tiemo
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