Hi all,
This is my first post here as am new to OpenLaszlo.
I am working on a video streaming platform and in past Alpha "development"
release was using SMIL 2.0 with RealPlayer. This actually worked quite well
but wanted more out of it and began looking at SWF + Flash Video.
I know Flash is much more popular and greater PC deployment, but basically want
to support both ways for a couple of reasons:
1) partner affiliates/support (i.e. not sure but down the road could work with
Real Networks)
2) current issues in Flash Player due to synch of multiple streams (video with
multiple audio languages)
,... so thinking of using OpenLaszlo for SWF + FLV as well as DHTML + SMIL.
The former can all be run via Flash Player whereas the latter of course would
launch Real Player or use embedded in webpage and have to do video streaming in
separate part of webpage or within Real Player's HTML Pane. This way I can
have my logon, user profile, setup pages and other portal aspects (searching
for and listing available VOD movies), etc. in OpenLaszlo regardless of SWF or
DHTML execution.
This is the background and now on to my question:
In respect to above, can I have differing program code logic execution (i.e.
branching) based upon whether an OpenLaszlo app is running in DHTML versus SWF
mode? Is there a way to tell? I would like to keep all SWF + FLV processing
within same OpenLaszlo app as portal. Otherwise, maybe better to spawn
separate process or another OpenLaszlo or Flash SWF app?
Thank you and kindest regards,
Mark Bobsin
