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[pmc]

i have made a stack with one player object and set the path to the movie. When I create it into a standalone and execute it in another computer, the player doesn't show up even with the quicktime player already installed. Why is this so and how to go about this?
Thanks in advance.

[bn]

Hi pmc,

could you post the relevant code? How did you set the player to the file, did you hard-code it into the the filename of the player. What is the other computer's operating system, and what is your computer's operating system. Where is the movie? Did you enclose it in the standalone?

Lot of questions.

Kind reagards

Bernd

[pmc]

There's no code for the player. All I did is drag it into the card and set the path using 'property inspector'. Please see attached image. Path is set to C:/Users/desktop/project/ChoongYangJin/... I have a file exactly the same at the other computer. Both computers are running MS vista business.
The problem is that on the other computer, the player on the card is not even there. It is just an empty box. Both computers are set to use quicktime as the default player.

Thanks
PMC

[pmc]

attached is the image. FYI, once I clicked on the radio button "Balance" on card "Frequent Pair Letters", it will open card "Balance" from Stack "Movies". The "stop"and "play" button is to stop and play the movie, obviously, and "close"is to close the card.
Do I need to link the QuickTime player to the Player object itself?
What would be a better way to play movies?
Thanks

[pmc]

OK...I got it, the link was wrong. Another question....the card seems to load very slow....how to I make it load faster?
I have a code on the "Movies" stack:

on preopenStack
load "OTVersion 7.6.9"
end preopenStack

It is still taking 4-5 seconds to load.

[bn]

Hi PMC,

if you put in an openstack handler

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get qtVersion()

this will load Quicktime at the start. See the dictionary.

from the dictionary

Tip: It can take LiveCode a second or two to load the code needed to use QuickTime, depending on the machine speed. Since this code is only loaded into memory once per session, you can speed up the first occurrence of a QuickTime-related action by calling the qtVersion function during otherwise dead time--for example, during startup of your application--to preload the code.

this should speed up the time it takes to play a video. That should be almost instantaneous.

Kind regards

Bernd

[pmc]

On which card should I put this code into? The main stack card or the movies stack card?

[bn]

Hi PMC,

since you want it to happen when the stack starts I would put it into a openstack handler in the stack script of the first stack that opens. It just makes shure that QT is loaded. It needs to do it only once. It loads Quicktime on the host machine.

Kind regards

Bernd

[Klaus]

Hi Choong,

Code: Select all

on preopenStack
   load "OTVersion 7.6.9"
end preopenStack

Please do yourself a favour and look up everything in the docs/Rev Dictionary
if you are not sure what it means!

-> "load" will load something from the internet!
So your handler will try to load the internet url "OTVersion 7.6.9" which does not exist of course!

-> "qtversion" is a function, that will return the currently installed version of QuickTime!
You cannot load a specific version of QuickTime, you must use what is present!

So put this somewehre in the "openstack" handler of your mainstack:
...
get qtversion()
...

Best

Klaus

[pmc]

I use the code on the "splash stack" but QT still load very slow.

[pmc]

Sorry, I code it as

get QTVersion()

[pmc]

Can we put a slider to control the volume? Adjusting the volume with the player default slider is impossible.

[Klaus]

Hi Choong,

I just made a quick test on Windows XP and I had no problems with
loading time and controlling the volume with the QuickTime controller.

What format is your movie?


Best

Klaus

[pmc]

The format is mpeg 1. Actually, originally they are .flv format ripped from youtube. I use a converter to convert them to mpeg1 as these are the files that can be play on QT.
The slider blinks when clicked on and it's impossible to grab the knob of the slider.
Thanks

[Klaus]

Hi Choong,

no problem here with an MPEG 1 video file!
Can you send me your stack and I will take a look?


Best

Klaus