Re: LiveCode Video Display with QuickTime on a PC ?

2016-04-02 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Thanks to Mark and Jacqueline, and especially Panos for adding AVI clarification, and again to Stephen for completing the PC issue. I now know how to solve all elements of this problem ! If QT (V7) works on XP PC versions, that solves my immediate problem, but the

LiveCode Video Display with QuickTime on a PC ?

2016-03-31 Thread stgoldb...@aol.com
The stack should run on PC. Be sure the movie filename is correctly prepared as a relative path, not an absolute path. E.g.: set the filename of player 1 to “Images/MyMovie.mov” Also, be sure the movie is correctly placed hierarchically. If for instance the movie MyMovie is in a folder titled

Re: LiveCode Video Display with QuickTime on a PC ?

2016-03-31 Thread panagiotis merakos
*If* I remember, correctly, the default value of the global dontuseQT is false on Windows (and true on OSX>=10.8). However, note that QT is not officially supported on Windows 8.1 and 10. It is quite possible that it will "just work", but not guaranteed. From Apple's website

Re: LiveCode Video Display with QuickTime on a PC ?

2016-03-31 Thread J. Landman Gay
Also remember to set the dontUseQT to false. The default has changed, and QT won't load now unless you tell it to do so. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com On March 31, 2016 12:28:11 PM Mark

Re: LiveCode Video Display with QuickTime on a PC ?

2016-03-31 Thread Mark Talluto
> On Mar 31, 2016, at 9:40 AM, Francis Nugent Dixon wrote: > > If I install Quicktime (Version 7) on the PC, what do I have to do to > allow it to run the videos , or is it transparent, as with Mac OS ? > If (as I have read) QT doesn’t run well on a PC, if I convert all the

LiveCode Video Display with QuickTime on a PC ?

2016-03-31 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, I’m confused - I want to create a PC version of a stack which plays videos (external) on demand. The files are either .mov or .mp4. The stack works perfectly on my Mac, but when I run it on a PC the video display will not work (no QT). So I have questions : If I