Playing Flash Video crashes revbrowserCEF

[William Prothero]

Folks:
Looks like, for now, my only option is to store the movie as an mp4 and put it on some server that supports that format. I didn’t want to serve all of that video on my server, but I may have to.

Regards,
Bill

> On Jan 7, 2015, at 12:49 PM, William Prothero <prothero at earthednet.org> wrote:
> 
> Folks:
> I’m trying to play a YouTube move in the rev browser. I use revBrowserOpenCEF. The code is:
> 
> on openBrowser
>   put the windowID of this stack into tWinID
>   put revBrowserOpenCEF(tWinID,"http://earthednet.org/ptExplorer/Cover.html") into sBrowserID
>   revBrowserSet sBrowserID,"showborder","true"
>   revBrowserSet sBrowserID, "rect",rect of grc "browserRect"
> end openBrowser
> 
> on closeBrowser
>   put revBrowserInstances() into tInstances
>   if tInstances is not empty then
>      revBrowserClose sBrowserID
>   end if
> end closeBrowser
> 
> This crashes LiveCode 7.0.1, as well as 7.0.1 (Rc2) when I try to play a Flash movie. This is on Mac OS10.10.1. The movie plays, but livecode won’t quit and seems to lock up or crash.
> 
> Before I submit a bug report, I wonder if anybody else has seen this, or if I am doing something wrong.
> 
> Note: using the older browser: “not the CEF one” Mac doesn’t crash, but the movie is not displayed at the correct size in Windows, and won’t display at all in Windows 7 64 bit.
> 
> Regards,
> Bill
> 
> William A. Prothero
> http://es.earthednet.org/
> 
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