Possible to add codecs (specifically, WMV)?

[Dave H.]

I was running a show last weekend that involved a lot of videos from third parties shown serially.  And as happens when there are a lot of cooks, I started the weekend with some files not present, and a promise to bring them on a flash drive day of show.

Normally, not a problem...copy files to hard drive, then drag them to QLab to create full-screen video cues, then put them in the right order.  Until I was given a .WMV video file, and QLab didn't recognize it or know what to do with it.

I have Flip4Mac installed, and Quicktime Player plays the movie just fine.  Ditto for VLC Player (which is what I used for the show...open video and quick Cmd-F and pray).  .WMA audio files are not recognized either.

Now, I understand that QLab has moved away from Quicktime in favor of Core Video for good reasons, but is there a way to add a codec for this or any other odd formats to QLab, or to my system in general?

(Bonus for show planners:  a brand-new Summer 2013 Macbook Air is more than capable of pushing 720p video around.  Try to go to 1080p and it will stutter, drop frames, and even hang the video once.  Not QLab's fault...QTPlayer and VLC also lagged with 1080p, although amusingly they all had different visible symptoms.)

[Christopher Ashworth]

Hi Dave,

QuickTime is now (finally) officially deprecated, so enjoy it while you can. :-)

AVFoundation is the basis for Apple's video playback now, and that's what QLab 3 uses. I'm unsure of how it handles extending the decoding options, although I'm not currently aware of a way to do that. I guess we will see if 3rd-party codec extensions are part of their plans…

Cheers,
Chris

[Christopher Ashworth]

Hi Dave,

QuickTime is now (finally) officially deprecated, so enjoy it while you can. :-)

AVFoundation is the basis for Apple's video playback now, and that's what QLab 3 uses. I'm unsure of how it handles extending the decoding options, although I'm not currently aware of a way to do that. I guess we will see if 3rd-party codec extensions are part of their plans…

Cheers,
Chris

On Aug 26, 2013, at 3:43 PM, Dave H. <rkoarmy...@gmail.com> wrote: