What video formats work on Windows?
Mark Waddingham
mark at livecode.com
Mon Oct 14 03:49:35 EDT 2024
On 2024-10-13 18:08, Colin Holgate via use-livecode wrote:
> The end goal is to be able to run a standalone, and some cards will
> have an external video file to play.
>
> As that doesn’t work, I have a card in LC 10.0 authoring, where a
> Player object is linked to a local MP4. The MP4 plays fine in the
> Windows 11 player.
>
> When I try to play the video file I get a ‘could not create movie
> reference’ message in the result.
>
> I have tried set the dontuseqt to TRUE - but that didn’t help. I don’t
> mind if I end up having to have another copy of the video files to use
> on Windows, but what file types will work?
We've changed the underlying media framework used on Windows from Direct
Show to Media Foundation Player in LiveCode Create (its been available
since dp-1 - both in the new Create IDE and Classic IDE mode).
Media Foundation supports a wider range of formats out of the box
compared to Direct Show - in particular mp4.
Also, things like taking a snapshot of the player, and alwaysBuffer
should now work too.
Warmest Regards,
Mark.
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