MoviePlayer playing Animation Codec?

Targets macOS
1

I have a quicktime file with an alpha channel (Animation Codec) in the same folder as the binary. The below code will play a quicktime but not one with an Animation Codec it seems. Would anyone have any thoughts? Here’s the vid.

Dim f As FolderItem
f = GetFolderItem("Countdown.mov")
MoviePlayer1.Speaker = True
MoviePlayer1.HasStep = False
MoviePlayer1.Movie = f.OpenAsMovie
MoviePlayer1.Play
2

Might have solved my own question.

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/71/863688

Apple deprecated all of the legacy QuickTime API in Mavericks.

3

Convert it to modern format using older QTKit plugin from me and the Modenizer class there.

4

Plugin can be found here:
https://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/xojo/download/plugin/Older%20Plugins/

5

Thanks!

6

For those interested, I re-encoded the video into ProRes 4444. Here’s how:
http://blogs.adobe.com/kevinmonahan/2014/02/13/exporting-media-with-an-alpha-channel-in-premiere-pro/

Now I just need to figure out how to play the video and show the transparency :wink: