I have had good luck using a player with dontUseQT set to true as long
as the audio is created with a codec that Windows supports. I haven't
had to use video, but since you mention invisible players, I assume
audio is the target.
We tested m4a on a Windows 10 machine and it worked, but previous
versions of Windows did not unless the user downloaded the codec. I
think if you make sure that the correct audio codec is installed on the
machine, the player should work correctly.
On 5/13/2016 5:03 PM, Tore Nilsen wrote:
I have a group of students up for national exams in computer science
in late May. In Norway, high school students bring their own
computers to the classroom and to their exams. One of my students has
a PC with Windows 10 installed. She reports that she is unable to use
the player object on her computer.
We do not know what tasks they will have to do for their exams until
the day of the exam, but previous exams have always contained one
task where students are asked to incorporate sound or video in their
application. In previous exams this task will have the students
prepare a media file (sound or video) and use it for different
purposes like a background track for a slide-show, a popUp window to
show videos or as a timed soundtrack for an animation.
In situations where the player object may be visible, we can always
use a browser-widget to complete the task. However, in situations
where the end user should not be able to control the player object
directly, or where the player object for other reasons needs to be
invisible, this is not a solution for this particular student.
Does anyone know if setting the dontuseQT to true will help? If not,
are there any other option we can try? Or should we start
transferring all her previous work, alongside LiveCode to one of our
schools older laptops, in order to have her up and running in good
time before her exam?
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Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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