Hi Monte,

I filed a bug report, but I could reproduce it only in my complex live stack 
and not in a test stack with a handy recipe.
It is LC 8.0 and yes it is QT. I know about all the QT hassles and have waited 
for years for a solution from Edinburgh.

My main product includes about 20000 videos, which I have compressed 7 years 
ago with a Sorenson codec, which is not supported by AVFoundation and on 
Windows we don't have a LC productive release with the new player yet.

Even if LC 8.1 is released, I can't create just a program update for my 
customers, because of the non supported codec, I have to supply complete new 
videos (about 8GB), so I can't make a  only update for my product, actually It 
has to be a major version upgrade, shipping again on DVD. Even if I will have 
some day compressed all 20000 videos with a new codec (yes I have batch 
compressor from Sorenson) I have to develop an upgrade strategy for all my 
customers. All in all it will probably take me a year from now on, until I got 
rid of QT.

It is especially annoying for me, that I have a new product, which is shortly 
before shipping, which I also only could develop depending on QT, because this 
product depends on the same 20000 videos being installed on the users machines 
and there was no alternative.

">  - QT can not be supported on Mac 64 bit"
What does this mean exactly? I have an iMac with a Intel Core i5 processor and 
I thought up to now, it would run as 64 bit. I don't find any system 
information about 32/64 bit. But QT is running fine on this machine and I 
haven't had any complains about Mac users up to now. What does this mean? Where 
can I check, if my system is running in 32 or 64 bit?

Thanks
Tiemo





-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: use-livecode [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von 
Monte Goulding
Gesendet: Samstag, 4. Juni 2016 02:37
An: How to use LiveCode <[email protected]>
Betreff: Re: LC 8 Random crash with QT set the filename of player on OS X

If there’s a reliable crash please post a bug report with the crash log and we 
can symbolicate it and try and resolve it. It would also be interesting to know 
which version of LC you are using and whether the crash happens with an 
AVFoundation player (using a different movie of course). 

Having said that what worries me the most about this conversation is the use of 
QuickTime. One of my tasks this sprint is to document and clarify the use of 
dontUseQT and also remove the IDE preference to load QT automatically as it is 
too dangerous to leave that preference from old versions of LiveCode active.

Here’s the current status:

 - QT hasn’t been supported by Apple for years
 - QT has security warnings to uninstall from Windows
 - QT can not be supported on Mac 64 bit

It is basically a bomb in your app waiting to go off so we should be 
encouraging everyone mentioning the use of QuickTime to re-encode unsupported 
videos as a high priority.

Cheers

Monte
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