Make sure your file references to the movie are relative and not absolute. I’ve made that mistake once or twice.
Tim Bleiler, Ph.D. Instructional Designer, HSIT University at Buffalo > On Mar 7, 2017, at 7:07 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > With LC 8.1.2 I changed the video standard in my programs from Quicktime to > the new standard interface DirectShow on Windows. I recoded all videos to > mp4 with Intel QSV H.264. > > On my developing W10 machine everything works fine in the IDE and > standalone. Now after release it looks like my developing machine is "the > only one" which can play the new videos in my new LiveCode program. > > On a W7, W8 and other W10 machine I get the error "could not create movie > reference" when setting the filename of the player object. > > Actually the DirectShow standard should be available from W7 to W10 and when > just double clicking the video, it can be played on all those other machines > with the standard video player, so it doesn't seem to be an codec issue. On > the other hand something from the environment must be different on my > developing machine. > > I also tried to build a new standalone with LC 9.0 dp3, but testing the > standalone it show the same issue. > > > > Has anybody any idea, where to start searching? > > What could be different on my developing machine as on all other machines? > > Are there any known system requirements for using DirectShow? (which I have > set unconsciously on my machine) > > > > Thanks for any ideas > > Tiemo > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
