I've built a mobile stack with a player that plays a remote video from a web site. This would solve your card opening delay issue, and would keep the file size of your stack down. I might be wrong, but I also seem to recall the entire video doesn't need to be loaded to be playable. Just display a busy indicator while the video is initially loading so your users know that something is happening when the card opens.
Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX/UI Design On 12/15/15, 10:54 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of Ben Rubinstein" <use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com on behalf of benr...@cogapp.com> wrote: >On 14/12/2015 20:58, J. Landman Gay wrote: >> On 12/14/2015 1:23 PM, Ben Rubinstein wrote: >>> 2) making it into a GIF on the card, which works quite nicely except >>> that there's an enormous delay going to the card, presumably as the >>> animation is buffered. >>> >>> Pros: can be exactly the size I want; plays quite smoothly >>> >>> Cons: I've not managed to play this from an external file, and if it's >>> embedded on the card there's an unacceptable delay. >> >> You could try the "prepare image" command to load the gif ahead of >>time. It >> works well for me, but I haven't ever tried it with gifs. > >Thanks Jacque and all who've replied. > >I should have given more details - my animation is actually a rendering >from a >3d model - it could happily be a video, except for the frame size issue. I >looked into the "prepare image" command - however you can only use it for >an >image on disk, or an image on the current card; my problem (with an >embedded >image) is that there's a delay on going to the card, because the image is >being loaded. Loading the GIF from an external file might be better but >I >couldn't make this work on mobile - should it be possible? Do I want a >relative path or an absolute one? > >Many thanks, > >Ben > >_______________________________________________ >use-livecode mailing list >use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >subscription preferences: >http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
