From: Nicholas Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: GetPosition() in live stream
This is currently not a supported feature.
At 03:04 PM 2/10/00 -0800, you wrote:
>From: "Sean Mollit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: GetPosition() in live stream
>
>
>Rather than embed events directly into a realmedia file via the rmmerge
>function I use a script that polls the player every X seconds using the
>GetPosition() function. I use an array that contains time-stamped
>events. When the poll routine finds a match between the player time and
>an event from the array it executes the event (load image, load html
>file, jump to new rm file, call a function etc...)
>
>This has the advantage of not "hardcoding" your events into the rm file,
>event information can be quickly changed in a simple js script.
>
>This works great with a prerecorded realmedia file. (here comes the
>question...patience)
>
>This would work wonderfully with a live stream except the GetPosition()
>function returns the time since the user's player started playing the
>live stream and not when the stream actually started.
>
>QUESTION:
>
>Is there a way to access a CONSTANT time that's relative to the LIVE
>STREAM and NOT the PLAYER?
>Can this be done via javascript, java or ActiveX?
>
>ex:
>if a broadcast started at 4:00 pm and a user loaded the page that
>launched his embeded player at 4:05 pm,
>the poll function would return 30,000 milliseconds (5 mins) on it's
>first pass and NOT 0 milliseconds
>
>Does a "time code" exist as part of the streaming protocol?
>
>An answer to this would be EXTREMELY USEFUL!!!!
>
>
>Sean Mollitt
>VP, Product Development
>Conceptis Technologies Inc.
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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