Does anyone have a recipe on how to play WMV videos on Windows systems with QuickTime installed?
For the live of me I don't get decent playback performance using HD 720p H.264 QuickTime mov files on Windows (Win 7 in this case). The stuttering is just unacceptable. MP4 AVC files play even worse. All my test movies play fine in the QuickTime player for Windows but not in a stack. Setting the player's "alwaysBuffer" to false makes no difference. So, I tried the same test video (same resolution, approximately the same frame rate) as WMV2 and voilà, the performance is much better, but there is another problem: If QuickTime is installed the card's player object stays empty and start player "myVideo" does nothing, at least in the IDE, even if the stack includes nothing more than the player. And yes, "dontUseQT" is set to true before any player or movie related action. The only way I managed to make the video appear at all means was, strange enough, to drag any object from the tools palette onto the card containing the player while the property inspector was visible. Of course this is no solution but it tells me that there must be a way to force the player to show the source and therefore to start playing a WMV in an environment I described above. By the way, to do without QuickTime is no option as in my case I need QuickTime to be installed. On the other hand, as I explained, it seems that I am forced to choose .wmv over .mov. Any suggestions? Anyone? Ralf _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
