What video formats work on Windows?

[Klaus major-k]

Hi Mark,

> Am 14.10.2024 um 09:49 schrieb Mark Waddingham via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
> 
> 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.

don't have a license yet, so is the Windows player object "en par" with the Mac version now?
Especially the feature that setting the "playrate" of a player does not affect the PITCH?

Thanks for any insight!

> Warmest Regards,
> 
> Mark.
> 
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Best

Klaus

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