.mp4 support in browser widget--Windows

[Peter Bogdanoff]

Hi, the browser widget doesn’t support .mp4 (or .mp5, both part of the HTML5 standard) in Windows.

This is disappointing, especially as LC 10 becomes web based. In the music application I’ve been developing, we are now going into new, transformational frontiers in education with web-based video (such as YouTube) interacting with normal Livecode—but this works on macOS ONLY. I tested YouTube videos in the widget on Windows 10, and the YT player reports that the videos are unsupported.

I understand that there is licensing involved. MPEG LA, now VIA Licensing Alliance, has a fee structure. For hardware decoders, for example:

For the first 1 to 50,000 decoders	No Royalty*
For decoders 50,001 and more	$ 0.25**

https://www.via-la.com/licensing-2/mpeg-4-visual/mpeg-4-visual-license-fees/ <https://www.via-la.com/licensing-2/mpeg-4-visual/mpeg-4-visual-license-fees/>

Is this an obstacle for LiveCode as software, and dependent on the underlying hardware?

My understanding from past LC forum posts is, to allow the widget to play the videos a flag is turned on and the widget recompiled.

I’m happy to pay for the licensing myself if I got to 50K customers!

Peter Bogdanoff