Hey guys,
About 10 years ago I had created an app with RealBasic/Xojo that, among other things, contained a MoviePlayer set to loop a move indefinitely. This was back in the QuickTime days, and at that time, the movies looped seamlessly you could not visually detect when the movie ended, went back to the beginning, and started again. In fact I can launch this app right now on both Windows 10 and also my non-Catalina Mac and can confirm the videos loop perfectly seamlessly, just as always.
After not touching this project for many years, Ive finally come back around to a situation where I need to update it to the latest standards and Catalina-compatibility.
I am super bummed out to find that the AVFoundation version of MoviePlayer will NOT seamlessly loop, even with very low-compression distribution codecs such as MJPEG. I have uploaded a sample project with a sample movie here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/z278pl7y7l0fqom/AABN7adIsgLBuKZCmMPVt0nBa?dl=0
The looping also isnt seamless on Windows, which I’d also like to solve, but for now I want to prioritize getting this working on a Mac.
I have done some preliminary research and it seems that Apple has a solution for exactly this problem. It is called AVPlayerLooper and the documentation for which can be found here: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/avfoundation/avplayerlooper
Apple has also posted a video about this here: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2016/503/ the pertinent part about AVPlayerLooper starts at the 12:59 mark.
So I guess at this point I can either abandon hope for having this working for the time being, or, maybe if Im lucky theres some way to achieve this using declares? I am not much of an expert user with declares, so any insight in that direction would be greatly appreciated.
Or, if the folks over at MBS have a solution for this, that would be great as well. I searched those docs and dont see any reference to this? Christian any ideas or insight? @Christian_Schmitz
I would prefer to use native players on both Mac and Windows rather than using VLC or ffplayer, due to distribution issues. I tried both of them out and they dont’ seem to be much of an improvement anyways.
Thanks in advance!