Video format for mobile

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Thu Apr 9 18:08:31 EDT 2020


The videos are, in fact, 1920x1080. I set the size of both the widget or the mobile scripted 
browser (whichever I was testing) to the card size but it still didn't play. Wish it worked, it 
would have been a nice trick.

On 4/9/20 3:41 PM, Colin Holgate via use-livecode wrote:
> A long time ago it was possible to work around hardware acceleration issues by playing the video at a different size. That is, a 1920x1080 playback would fail and a 1920x1081 would work. It was just a trick to force the player to use software instead of hardware.
> 
> 
>> On Apr 9, 2020, at 2:36 PM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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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>>>>>>>>> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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