More about audio-video

Alex Shaw alex at harryscollar.com
Thu Jan 17 18:08:48 EST 2013


Hi Jacqueline

If you don't need streaming you could try MPEG-1 video files.

When compressed properly they are relatively good quality, just a bit 
bigger filesize-wise compared to MPEG-4.

regards
alex

On 18/01/13 8:58 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> I've been testing in Windows 7 without QuickTime installed to see how
> video and audio files work in a player object. Some formats that work
> fine in WMP will not work in LiveCode. The same files that fail in
> LiveCode also fail in the preview panel in Explorer. But they do work in
> WMP itself.
>
> I didn't test all types, just what I had on my drive. These work fine in
> LiveCode:
>
> .wmp
> .mp3
> .avi -- doesn't really work; audio only, very poor quality
>
> These do not work at all in a player (or in the preview panel in
> Explorer.) They simply do not load:
>
> .mp4
> .mov
>
> In the Media Player app itself, all the above formats play perfectly. I
> did not need to download any extra codecs, not even for .mov files.
>
> For the two that work in LiveCode, all player-related functions seemed
> to be okay. I could start, stop, get the duration, get/set the
> currentTime, etc. I didn't test any messaging, like callbacks.
>
> I need a video format that will play in Windows without QT. Which of the
> many others should I look at?
>




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