Re: Overlaying on video

2017-03-27 Thread hh via use-livecode
> Roger E. wrote > Will there be a similar capability to allow objects (buttons and fields) > to overlay a browser widget, which might also be displaying a video? > I believe there is a need to make this possible for any situation. As I'm currentl refershing my 'web-knowledge' I made a demo. An

Re: Overlaying on video

2017-03-27 Thread Rick Harrison via use-livecode
Hi Ben, The movie that didn’t work for me was: 640 × 360, AAC, H.264 as a .mov quicktime movie. Let me know what you learn and discover! Thanks, Rick > On Mar 27, 2017, at 8:35 AM, Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode > wrote: > > Hi Rick > > Thanks for your

Re: Overlaying on video

2017-03-27 Thread Roger Eller via use-livecode
Will there be a similar capability to allow objects (buttons and fields) to overlay a browser widget, which might also be displaying a video? I believe there is a need to make this possible for any situation. ~Roger On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 8:47 AM, panagiotis merakos via use-livecode <

Re: Overlaying on video

2017-03-27 Thread Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode
Aha! Thanks, Panos. So probably what made the difference for me wasn't the re-encoded movie, it was all the messing about I did in the process that at some point had the right effect... Ben On 27/03/2017 13:47, panagiotis merakos via use-livecode wrote: Hi all, Before LC 8.1.0, one could

Re: Overlaying on video

2017-03-27 Thread panagiotis merakos via use-livecode
Hi all, Before LC 8.1.0, one could put other objects on top of the player object, if alwaysBuffer==true. This has broken in LC 8.1.0+. A workaround is described in this bug report: http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19444 Best, Panos -- On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 1:35 PM, Ben Rubinstein

Re: Overlaying on video

2017-03-27 Thread Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode
Hi Rick Thanks for your reply. > I think once a movie starts playing other LC messages don’t > have time to be sent. The video just takes over because > it’s showing each frame quickly so your eye tells you > it’s a movie. I don't think that's it. I've had time codes displays running before,

Re: Overlaying on video

2017-03-26 Thread Rick Harrison via use-livecode
Hi Ben, To try to answer the second part of your question first. I think once a movie starts playing other LC messages don’t have time to be sent. The video just takes over because it’s showing each frame quickly so your eye tells you it’s a movie. One solution I had to use in the past to make

Overlaying on video

2017-03-26 Thread Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode
I'm trying to overlay some graphics on a video, and hit a couple of problems. The first, which drove me somewhat mad until I found an out, was that the video was always displayed on top of other LC elements - graphics, fields. This is using a player object; I found that the controller would be