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Windows playing .mov file from server?

Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2013 10:41 am
by dbailey
Hi All,

My desktop app plays .mov videos streamed from a server and works ok on a mac, when I run the program on Windows the video does not play, I'm using the play control

e.g:


put the selectedtext of field "Video List" into theVideoFileName
replace space with "%20" in theVideoFileName
put playlistURL & theVideoFileName into VideoUrl
set the filename of player "Viewer" to VideoUrl
set the currentTime of player "Viewer" to 0
start player "Viewer"

Re: Windows playing .mov file from server?

Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2013 11:50 am
by Klaus
Maybe a stupid question, but is QuickTIme installed on the target PC?
This is of course mandatory!

I have a vague memory that instead of using "start player xyz" we should use:
...
set the playrate of player "Viewer" to 1
## for online videos in a player object...
...
No ida why, but worth a try :D

Re: Windows playing .mov file from server?

Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2013 2:57 pm
by dbailey
Thanks Klaus,

Some may have some may not :) so my solution now has been to detect what os is running then display message ensuring user has installed Quicktime v7 or above.