Livecode 7.0 Can't Play Video

Ray ray at linkit.com
Thu Dec 18 09:12:35 EST 2014


Klaus many thanks!  Where did you even hear about such a property? I'd 
like to start doing whatever it is you're doing when new versions come 
out so I stay abreast of these things.

On 12/18/2014 11:09 AM, Klaus major-k wrote:
> Hi Ray,
>
>> Am 18.12.2014 um 15:05 schrieb Ray <ray at linkit.com>:
>>
>> When I do the following on my Mac OSX 10.7.1 running Quicktime 7.7.1 I hear the audio but I can't see the video.
>> I drag a player object to a new main stack and change the source from the Livecode's Sample.mov file to Apple's Sample_iPod.m4v movie or any other .m4v file.  Playing it gives me audio but no video.
>> If I choose the edit tool in Livecode while the movie is play suddenly video plays.  Return to Livecode's browse tool and video stops while audio continues.
>> This is no problem at all in Livecode 6.5.2 using the same platform, same system and same Quicktime version.  It's also no problem on my Windows 8.1 system in either version of Livecode.
>> Is this really a bug or am I missing something?  If it's a bug does anybody know if it's been reported?
> quick guess: In Livecode 7 the "dontuseqt" property is set to TRUE by default,
> since it uses the new AVFoundation on the Mac to display media in a player object.
>
> Try to set this property to FALSE on preopenstack and see if that works.
>
> I hate these "dont_XYZ" properties, they are just too mentally challenging! :-D
>
>
> Best
>
> Klaus
>
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>
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