Hi Tim, choosing a video file via ask dialog and setting the filename of the player object to it sets an absolute path and that works on my machine fine.
Thank you for that hint Tiemo -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von Bleiler, Timothy via use-livecode Gesendet: Dienstag, 7. März 2017 15:40 An: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> Cc: Bleiler, Timothy <blei...@buffalo.edu> Betreff: Re: Trouble playing videos with MS DirectShow LC 8 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 _______________________________________________ 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
