RE Video Player LiveCode on Windows

Paul Dupuis paul at researchware.com
Wed Oct 23 13:08:23 EDT 2019


I concur with Peter's suggestion.

Using LC9.0.5 RELEASE, I have not seen crashes when editing stacks with 
player objects or changing player properties. LC9.0.5rc1 and LC9.5.0 
RELEASE have bugs that can crash the IDE while debugging.

However, in our two applications that use the player object, the player 
is generally not set to any video (filename is empty) while editing.

-- Paul

On 10/23/2019 12:43 PM, Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode wrote:
> Roland,
>
> You might try setting filename of the player to empty before going to edit mode (catching the editScript message). In the past, if a player couldn’t find the referenced file it often causes LC to freeze or slow way down, similarly to what you’re reporting.
>
> Peter Bogdanoff
> ArtsInteractive
>
>
>> On Oct 23, 2019, at 12:28 PM, R.H. via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>
>> @ Paul Dupuis
>>
>> Thank you very much, Paul, for your detailed answer. I removed my other
>> Codec package and installed the LAV package as recommended by you. It works
>> well! Great. All the videos I have in MP4, etc. are playing now. This makes
>> me happy.
>>
>> But the other biggest problem:
>>
>> My IDE starts hanging (Windows 64, Version Indy 9.05 and 9.5) when working
>> with the player and being in edit mode, mainly using the script editor.
>> This happens all the time. There is no exact recipe. After some time, I
>> already notice LC is slowing down (it takes long time for anything to
>> happen) , and soon after that all freezes, and then I have to force-quit
>> and restart all over again.
>>
>> As long as the user mode is on and as long as the player is just playing,
>> it seems to be ok . Except, of course, there is a huge bug list that you
>> mentioned.
>>
>> If anybody else has experienced hanging/freezing LiveCode using the player
>> in edit mode, I would then create a but report because I could not find a
>> similar report there. Unfortunately, there is no very clear recipe yet.
>>
>> Roland
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