Re: QT playback of remote files

2013-07-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/17/13 6:01 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote: I just took a look at the engine source code and the engine is making different calls to get the movie playing with 'start player' then when you set 'the playrate'. When setting the 'playrate' QuickTime is completely responsible for getting the movie to

Re: QT playback of remote files

2013-07-18 Thread Jeff Reynolds
Trevor way good! This just clicked, i had to do this with a project where it was a local files but multiple movies were playing then had to fire an audio file and would not reliably start playing. i stumbled into setting the playrate somehow. good luck Jacqueline! jeff On Jul 17, 2013, at

Re: QT playback of remote files

2013-07-17 Thread Richard Gaskin
Not sure if this will help, but I've had cases in which setting the player's filename to empty in between loading actual remote videos has helped. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers:

Re: QT playback of remote files

2013-07-17 Thread J. Landman Gay
Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: Not sure if this will help, but I've had cases in which setting the player's filename to empty in between loading actual remote videos has helped. Thanks, it's my habit to do that too so it's already in there. I keep thinking the player should

Re: QT playback of remote files

2013-07-17 Thread Klaus major-k
Hi Jaquelin, Am 17.07.2013 um 16:44 schrieb J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com: Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: Not sure if this will help, but I've had cases in which setting the player's filename to empty in between loading actual remote videos has helped.

Re: QT playback of remote files

2013-07-17 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/17/13 10:08 AM, Klaus major-k wrote: maybe you can use Trevors Wonderfull Enhanced QuickTime External, which will let YOU manage all this stuf? Thanks Klaus, that sounds good. Unfortunately this is the project where I'm not supposed to use externals. I might be able to change their mind

Re: QT playback of remote files

2013-07-17 Thread Klaus major-k
Hi Jaqueline, Am 17.07.2013 um 18:49 schrieb J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com: On 7/17/13 10:08 AM, Klaus major-k wrote: maybe you can use Trevors Wonderfull Enhanced QuickTime External, which will let YOU manage all this stuf? Thanks Klaus, that sounds good. Unfortunately this is

Re: QT playback of remote files

2013-07-17 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/17/13 11:54 AM, Klaus major-k wrote: Maybe you can just use a browser object to display the movie? Remote movie playback in a browser seems to be a tad more reliable ;-) They're actually audio files, and the player is invisible. But I can try it. And creating a HTML5 snippet to play a

Re: QT playback of remote files

2013-07-17 Thread Klaus major-k
Hi Jaqueline, Am 17.07.2013 um 18:58 schrieb J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com: On 7/17/13 11:54 AM, Klaus major-k wrote: Maybe you can just use a browser object to display the movie? Remote movie playback in a browser seems to be a tad more reliable ;-) They're actually audio

Re: QT playback of remote files

2013-07-17 Thread Klaus major-k
Hi Jaqueline, good old W3 schools: http://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_audio.asp Even includes a browser compatibility chart :-) Best Klaus -- Klaus Major http://www.major-k.de kl...@major-k.de ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: QT playback of remote files

2013-07-17 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/17/13 12:03 PM, Klaus major-k wrote: Hi Jaqueline, Am 17.07.2013 um 18:58 schrieb J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com: On 7/17/13 11:54 AM, Klaus major-k wrote: Maybe you can just use a browser object to display the movie? Remote movie playback in a browser seems to be a tad more

Re: QT playback of remote files

2013-07-17 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:55 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote: My project loads a player with a URL to a remote audio file on a fast server like this: set the filename of player 1 to https://xxx.xxx..m4a start player 1 Jacque, Instead of 'start player 1' try 'set the

Re: QT playback of remote files

2013-07-17 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/17/13 1:25 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:55 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote: My project loads a player with a URL to a remote audio file on a fast server like this: set the filename of player 1 to https://xxx.xxx..m4a start player 1 Jacque,

Re: QT playback of remote files

2013-07-17 Thread Peter Bogdanoff
I've had this same exact issue trying to play QT audi from a server. The audio does not start reliably. It seems to have started to become a problem with later versions of QT. I've worked around it by testing a few seconds later to see if it's playing; if not tell it to play again. I submitted

Re: QT playback of remote files

2013-07-17 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 2:59 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote: On 7/17/13 1:25 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote: Instead of 'start player 1' try 'set the playrate of player 1 to 1'. Does that have any affect? Ohhh... I think it does! I haven't tested thoroughly but I haven't had

QT playback of remote files

2013-07-16 Thread J. Landman Gay
My project loads a player with a URL to a remote audio file on a fast server like this: set the filename of player 1 to https://xxx.xxx..m4a start player 1 Sometimes it works fine, but frequently nothing plays. I think, but am not positive, that I've traced it to an issue where the player