Alternative player for windows?

[Tomka]

Hiho,

i got a little question. I read alot in this forum about thats possible to use an other player (than QT) in windows-envoirment. Is there any Howto or Lesson for that?

My problem is that QT makes my App very instable under Windows. It crashes "without" any reason and I want to use an other player (for playback and recording) to solve the problems.


Thanks alot
Thomas

[Mark]

Thomas, where did you read that? Got a link?

Mark

[WaltBrown]

Well, there's the User Guide:

On Windows systems, the player object can play back video using the Windows Media
subsystem. This has more limited functionality than using QuickTime.

On Linux Systems, the player object can play back video using mplayer. There are some
functionality limitations: alwaysBuffer, the startTime, endTime and ...

To force LiveCode to use the Windows Media subsystem instead of QuickTime on
Windows systems, even when QuickTime is installed, set the dontUseQT global
property to true.

I've also played videos in revBrowser (although opening YouTube just crashed LC on me - and it's a repeatable crash if I enter YouTube's home page
so there may be some optons thru the browser.

Walt

[Tomka]

Ok, I should add something to my question before. Like I already wrote, my app is very unstable with using QT under win7.

How is about using "dontUseQT" and using the win-MCI for recording and playing sound? Does anyone have good experiences with that?

[Mark]

Hi,

LiveCode's WinMCI implementation is extremely old and the used technology itself is even older (approximately 15 years). It plays only a very limited number of formats.

Perhaps you should tell us more about your unstability problem. What makes you say it is unstable?

Kind regards,

Mark

[paul_gr]

IMO the best quicktime player for Windows is the open source VLC media player from http://www.videolan.org
Been using it for years...
Also plays many other formats and can be installed on many operating systems.
Also has various libraries available.
Might be useful to you. Worth a look.

cheers
Paul

[BarrySumpter]

Last week I chased down a LiveCode iTunes library.
I only had a few mins to play.
It did play the vid I was pointing at in iTunes in win32.

Remembering now it was very well written and comprehensive and huge.
But found very little posts regarding it on the LC forums.

Don't know what my issue was at the time with downloading.
I wrote the author and he was gracious enough to reply:

From: Thomas McGrath III [mailto:3mcgrath@comcast.net]
Sent: Tuesday, 27 September 2011 10:30 PM
To: Barry G. Sumpter
Subject: Re: iTunes Library Suite - libITS

Barry,

The link at http://lazyriver.on-rev.com/LibITSfldr.zip is still valid and the library is in the resultant downloaded folder. Although the two stacks (Library and Documents) still have a .rev extension.

Tom

hth