Player changes in 6.7 (dp 4) for Mac OS X
Posted: Sat May 24, 2014 2:51 pm
As part of LiveCode Global Jam I have been focusing on testing the player in 6.7 and have reported a few bugs that I have found so far. I really support the move to AVFoundation as a part of the move to Cocoa and I hope that the new player will be able to have feature parity with the current player. However I suspect there will be features that will not be able to be implemented in AVFoundation. I asked during Kevin's 'ask me anything' session yesterday if it was possible to have the option of using the old player in 6.7 as a backward compatibility mode. Kevin's answer gave hope that it will likely be considered if feature parity can't be achieved.
So I think it is important to torture test the player and the new controller that Panos is working on to see if true feature parity is achieved. I have uploaded a stack to one of my bug reports (http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12512) that I am using to test various messages and properties. I have not got all the properties and messages on there yet. If people want to download it add to it that would be great. Also If people can try it on their own Macs to test on various OS's and hardware. One thing I have noticed is some of the bugs I have found happen only on Retina Macs. So it would be good to get this tested on as many OS and Hardware configurations as possible.
Torture testing the player will help the team work toward the goal of achieving feature parity, if that is not possible in the end, the unresolved bug reports will help make the case that the backward compatibility mode with an old version of player will be needed in 6.7.
Thanks.
Martin Koob
So I think it is important to torture test the player and the new controller that Panos is working on to see if true feature parity is achieved. I have uploaded a stack to one of my bug reports (http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12512) that I am using to test various messages and properties. I have not got all the properties and messages on there yet. If people want to download it add to it that would be great. Also If people can try it on their own Macs to test on various OS's and hardware. One thing I have noticed is some of the bugs I have found happen only on Retina Macs. So it would be good to get this tested on as many OS and Hardware configurations as possible.
Torture testing the player will help the team work toward the goal of achieving feature parity, if that is not possible in the end, the unresolved bug reports will help make the case that the backward compatibility mode with an old version of player will be needed in 6.7.
Thanks.
Martin Koob