Player does not accept all .pdf or .psd files

[pderks]

I was glad to discover the player's ability, to display Quicktime-supported image formats, like .pdf or .psd (Photoshop).
But I can't find out the player's criteria for accepting or refusing particular files of these types.

Peter

[Klaus]

Hi Peter,

unfortunately this is not documented anywhere!
I know e.g. that PDF and PSD files that contain CMYK content do not open in QT.

And the days of QuickTIme are also counted, so do not rely to heavy on QT!


Best

Klaus

[thomthib]

Klaus,

Your statement to not rely heavily on QT because its days are numbered worries me. I use the QT player object to play external audio and video files. Is LC going to stop supporting QT or will it provide an alternative way to play external videos and audios?

Since LC 7 made changes to the player object, I've had problems with my stack where the player can't 'see' the link to an external file when I try to run it on a different computer. I recently submitted a problem to the forum but didn't get much response. I'm at an impasse. The problem didn't exist before LC 7 It's a simple problem dealing with relative path names but I'm quite frustrated by my inability to solve it and lack of response from the forum. If LC is going to stop supporting a way to play external files, that's going to mess up a project that I've been working on for 9 years. I thank you in advance for any advice you can give me.

[FourthWorld]

Is LC going to stop supporting QT or will it provide an alternative way to play external videos and audios?

LiveCode didn't choose to deprecate QT. If they could have continued to enjoy using the QuickTime code they'd worked so hard to develop they certainly would have. QT is Apple's property, and Apple chose to deprecate it.

Starting with v6.7 and later, the media playback engine in LiveCode has been rewritten to us Apple's newer APIs, as required by Apple. In most cases the transition has been largely transparent for us, but there are enough differences between QT and the new APIs that there may be an issue or two outstanding. If you find one please file a bug report.