mergAVPlayerCreateFromURL in IDE

[Monte Goulding]

Hmm… that seems unpleasant. Unfortunately it probably hasn’t been used much before on mac so if you can post a bug report with your issues that would be good. What was the reason you are using mergAVPlayer instead of the engine player/mobile control options?

Cheers

Monte

> On 23 Feb 2018, at 1:34 pm, Sean Cole (Pi) via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Ok, weird. So, after working out that mergAVPlayerCreateFromURL needs to
> use a 'put' command as a function, the video would play but not be
> visible despite that property being set to true. Further investigation
> showed that the rect when set to 0,0,1024,768 would read back (using
> mergAVPlayerGet) as 0,-768,1024,768. If I set it to 0,0,512,384, it returns
> 0,-384,512,384. Setting to 0,200,512,384 returns 0,-384,512,184.
> 
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> On 22 February 2018 at 22:14, Monte Goulding via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Yes it should work on Mac in the IDE. I don’t know if it has ever been
>> used much because player objects make more sense on desktop. Looks like you
>> need to set the visible to true after creating it but on iOS that probably
>> isn’t required...
>> 
>> Cheers
>> 
>> Monte
>> 
>>> On 23 Feb 2018, at 3:20 am, Sean Cole (Pi) via use-livecode <
>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Is there any way to get mergAVPlayerCreateFromURL to work within the
>> IDE? I
>>> would like to test it without building a standalone for bug locating.
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> Sean Cole
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