Video format for mobile

[Mark Waddingham]

This sounds like a bug we are currently fixing (hopefully in time for 9.6-DP-4) - the android player doesn’t currently play nicely with accelerated rendering... Turning that off should mean things play properly.

We use the system player object so MP4 should be fine.

Warmest Regards,

Mark.

Sent from my iPhone

> On 9 Apr 2020, at 20:31, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> I tried the browser widget: no audio, no video, white screen, no browser outline on Android.
> 
> I tried a mobile browser (mobileControlCreate): audio plays, no video, white screen.
> 
> So yeah, it looks like there's no codec. The widget on desktop doesn't play it either. If I ask the client to re-do the videos, what codec should I ask for? I was told that we had to use their existing videos, so I'm not even sure they will re-do them.
> 
>> On 4/9/20 1:01 PM, Tom Glod via use-livecode wrote:
>>  I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news here.  :(
>> if its h264 the browser widget won't play it. If you saw video but no audio
>> then thats one thing.....but no video means the video codec is also absent.
>>> On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 1:57 PM J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <
>>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>> They're kind of huge (like 400 MB) so I didn't copy them to my phone, but
>>> they play okay on Mac
>>> using Firefox and on Android using Chrome browser. I guess that doesn't
>>> tell us much.
>>> 
>>> Swami suggested to me privately that he uses a browser widget to play
>>> videos so I will try that
>>> next.
>>> 
>>> On 4/9/20 9:20 AM, Mark Talluto via use-livecode wrote:
>>>> What happens if you play the file locally on each device?
>>>> 
>>>> -Mark
>>>> 
>>>> On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 10:22 PM J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <
>>>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Not sure what you mean by "an existing app" but my test app uses
>>>>> mobileControlCreate to set up
>>>>> a mobile player. When it accesses the video from my server, it's all
>>> black
>>>>> with no video or
>>>>> audio, and the nonexistent playback quits a few seconds in.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm not sure whether these videos were created with streaming in mind. I
>>>>> vaguely remember we
>>>>> used to need to set a "streaming" checkbox when creating a video. Is
>>> that
>>>>> still required?
>>>>> 
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