Video format for mobile

[J. Landman Gay]

If that's true, I'm in trouble. There are a lot of these videos.

I just made a quick test app and ran it on Android. I get a blank mobile player displaying a 
completely black rectangle. The script loads the URL from my server, waits for a 
playerPropertyAvailable "duration" property to be received, and then starts to play. The video 
is about a minute and a half long, the duration is never received, and after about a 30 second 
wait I get the playerFinished message.

A quick web search verifies what Colin said, an .mp4 with H.264 and AAC is pretty much standard 
these days.

Not sure where to go from here but I need a solution.

On 4/8/20 11:17 PM, Tom Glod via use-livecode wrote:
> my guess is the LC player does not have h264 codec..... its a codec that
> carries a license fee and agreement. I hope one day it can be included in
> an indy license and maybe the CEF can be built with the h264 codec.
> 
> That would be really good for business.
> 
> CHeers
> 
> Tom
> 
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 12:12 AM J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
>> Thanks. The Mac won't play it, which is odd (usually in Finder a media
>> thumbnail will play) and the Mac suggests QT as a default app, wbich is no
>> longer supported officially.
>>
>> I will try it on mobile when I get farther along, but for now I'd like to
>> debug on Mac during development. The LC player is blank when I set the
>> filename, presumably because it doesn't support QT either.
>>
>> --
>> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
>> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
>> On April 8, 2020 9:48:52 PM Jerry Jensen via use-livecode
>> <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi J,
>>> AAC is Advanced Audio Compression - successor to MP3.
>>> https://fileinfo.com/extension/aac
>>> Hope this will help you figure out how to play it.
>>> .Jerry
>>>
>>>> On Apr 8, 2020, at 4:10 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
>>>> <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I asked this before, looking for the best format for video files on
>> both
>>>> Android and iOS. Colin suggested H.264 as the codec, and MP4 as the
>> file
>>>> format. I have a video with those specs but it won't play in the LC
>> player,
>>>> and the Mac wants to open it with QuickTime. VLC will play it.
>>>>
>>>> Get Info shows the codec as H.264, AAC. The file extension is mp4. Is
>> AAC
>>>> the problem (that's the audio format, right?) What should it be?
>>>>
>>>> I haven't tried it on mobile yet, but if it needs QT I'm pretty sure it
>>>> won't work.
>>>>
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>>>> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
>>>> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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