Video format for mobile

[J. Landman Gay]

I tried the browser widget: no audio, no video, white screen, no browser outline on Android.

I tried a mobile browser (mobileControlCreate): audio plays, no video, white screen.

So yeah, it looks like there's no codec. The widget on desktop doesn't play it either. If I ask 
the client to re-do the videos, what codec should I ask for? I was told that we had to use 
their existing videos, so I'm not even sure they will re-do them.

On 4/9/20 1:01 PM, Tom Glod via use-livecode wrote:
>   I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news here.  :(
> 
> if its h264 the browser widget won't play it. If you saw video but no audio
> then thats one thing.....but no video means the video codec is also absent.
> 
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 1:57 PM J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
>> They're kind of huge (like 400 MB) so I didn't copy them to my phone, but
>> they play okay on Mac
>> using Firefox and on Android using Chrome browser. I guess that doesn't
>> tell us much.
>>
>> Swami suggested to me privately that he uses a browser widget to play
>> videos so I will try that
>> next.
>>
>> On 4/9/20 9:20 AM, Mark Talluto via use-livecode wrote:
>>> What happens if you play the file locally on each device?
>>>
>>> -Mark
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 10:22 PM J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <
>>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Not sure what you mean by "an existing app" but my test app uses
>>>> mobileControlCreate to set up
>>>> a mobile player. When it accesses the video from my server, it's all
>> black
>>>> with no video or
>>>> audio, and the nonexistent playback quits a few seconds in.
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure whether these videos were created with streaming in mind. I
>>>> vaguely remember we
>>>> used to need to set a "streaming" checkbox when creating a video. Is
>> that
>>>> still required?
>>>>
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>>>>>> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
>>>>>> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
>>>>>>
>>>>
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