Re: .mp4 support in browser widget--Windows

2024-07-07 Thread Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode
OK thanks. Many of our users are college undergrads, some of which appear to have never installed an application on their own computer. Now I have to get them to do a second installation as well. By any chance, can I get my LC application to initiate the LAV filters install? > On Jul 7, 2024

Re: .mp4 support in browser widget--Windows

2024-07-07 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Windows 11 will have the issue. Livecode on Windows 10 or 11 uses DirectShow. Try the LAV Filters to get the formats you want. .mp4 is fine, I am not sure about .mp5 support. See the LAV Filters read me and documentation. On 7/7/2024 7:56 PM, Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode wrote: Thanks, P

Re: .mp4 support in browser widget--Windows

2024-07-07 Thread Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode
Thanks, Paul. So, Windows 11 shouldn’t have this issue? > On Jul 7, 2024, at 1:58 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode > wrote: > > Livecode on Windows (9.x.x and 10.x.x) still uses DirectShow for the video > (vs the Microsoft Media Foundation (MMF), the current standard. DirectShow > was alw

Re: .mp4 support in browser widget--Windows

2024-07-07 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Livecode on Windows (9.x.x and 10.x.x) still uses DirectShow for the video (vs the Microsoft Media Foundation (MMF), the current standard. DirectShow was always limited in the number of codec for various audio and video formats it supported natively. I stringly recommend for macOS Windows parit

.mp4 support in browser widget--Windows

2024-07-07 Thread Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode
Hi, the browser widget doesn’t support .mp4 (or .mp5, both part of the HTML5 standard) in Windows. This is disappointing, especially as LC 10 becomes web based. In the music application I’ve been developing, we are now going into new, transformational frontiers in education with web-based video