On Sep 11, 2005, at 9:54 AM, Howard Bornstein wrote:
1) I want to use my own controls to start and stop the player, rather than use the Quicktime controller. At first this worked fine. For some reason now it's not working at all. If I use the command <start player "stream"> the player says "connecting" but never does. However, if I click the start button on the controller, it connects fine. Why doesn't the start command work? (Is this related to bug 1239?)
Set the playRate to 1 rather than using <start player>. I'm not sure what <start player> is doing under the hood but it has problems with streaming movies. By setting the playRate you are directly accessing a QuickTime property and everything works as it is supposed to.
2) In order to determine if the server is down, I need to tell if the player is receiving an audio stream. I've been using the currenttime to test this. I check to see if the currenttime changes over a 1 second interval. If it's the same, I assume the server has stopped. Sometimes, however, audio will stop playing while the currenttime goes on its merry way. I need a *reliable* way to tell if the player is receiving data from the stream. Does anyone have a suggestion for this? 3) Finally, the player seems to generate certain messages right in the player bar--things like "connecting", "negotiating", "connection failed", etc. Is there a way I can intercept these messages in Rev?
There isn't a way to get this information about a movie in Revolution right now. Something like this could be added to the EnhancedQT external though. It is just a matter of adding a couple of additional if statements to a function that already exists. I think that adding this would actually solve issues 2 and 3. I just browsed the docs and it seams that there is a status string that tells you the streaming status and also one that reports errors. Perhaps an error is reported when the streaming server goes down.
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