OK thanks to those who sent encouragement off line and asked to keep
this thread on the forum.
OK all my stuff is "open source" so you can hammer away at it yourself
if you want, just please
share with everyone your findings.
go stack decompress(url
"http://www.hinduismtoday.com/digital/htde_media-player.rev.gz";)
Today's version uses Trevor's recommendation to set the playrate to 1
instead of "Start Player"
(why we would that is unintuitive, but, if it works better....)
and also I found this little golden nugget hidden in the documentation,
set the currentTime of player "My Player" to zero
in, of all places, the docs' entry for "filename"
============
Important! Setting a player's filename does not automatically update
its currentTime property. If you play a movie file, then change the
player's filename in order to play another, you must reset the
currentTime to zero in order to start from the beginning of the second
movie:
set the filename of player "My Player" to "SecondMovie.mov"
set the currentTime of player "My Player" to zero
=========
Jacqueline! Are you lurking? this needs to be copied to the QT player
section somewhere
I mean, I guess its obvious, but gosh, I just had to bump into it like
that....but
imagine stopping a player whose current time was set to 30 second in and
then
trying to stream another media file to that same player...
ok so now the buttons go like this, and I have it out for testing to some of
"hard nuts" (windows users who say it just won't work)
global gConnectedToNet
ON mouseUp
testNetConnection
IF gConnectedToNet is not empty THEN
stop player "player1"
hide image "audioPoster"
set the filename of player "player1" to
"http://www.hinduismtoday.com/archives/2006/10-12/media/ht_2006-10-01_banteay-srei.mov";
set the currenttime of player "player1" to zero
set the playrate of player "player1" to 1
--start player "player1"
ELSE
connectionNotification
END IF
END mouseUp
On Sep 16, 2006, at 1:52 AM, Sivakatirswami wrote:
> Trevor... I'll try that "playrate" but... what's behind your thinking?
> On that one... I like to know the "why" if it can be known.
--Trevor DeVore wrote
This has fixed problems for people with streaming movies on OS X in the
past. I suggest it as I am pretty sure what is getting called in the QT
API when setting the playrate but I don't know what start playing does
in the Revolution code. The playrate is how you start/stop movies in QT
in most cases.
--Trevor DeVore
Blue Mango Learning Systems - www.bluemangolearning.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sep 16, 2006, at 2:25 AM, Sivakatirswami wrote:
But obviously QT--Windows is having trouble with this.
So perhaps we need a better, more "graceful"
implementation that Windows is happy with.
Are there other things we need to be thinking about?
Possibly:
1) delete previous URL for the stopped media from the Rev Cached URL's
The URL won't be in Rev's cached URLs unless you were downloading it
yourself first. QT deals with the URL exclusively and handles caching
when you load URLs in a player object.
2) Maybe have two players? if Player1 is running, stop it,
and assign the next selection to Player2, start it up, meanwhile
"clean up" player1 (set filename of player1 to "") then on next
selection.
Stop player2 and assign latest selection to Player1 and clean up Player2?
This way one is not trying to stop, reset filename, re-initialize the
socket, start streaming
again... all in one player object...
I'll give that a try.
Any more bright ideas?
The one player approach should work out but you never know.
I have one app that loads lots of QT movies throughout a session. Each
step in a lesson (e-learning) can have up to three QT movies on screen
at one time. I actually delete all players and create new ones as
needed each time the screen changes (part of a template system) and this
has worked well for us. Maybe something to try if you continue to see
problems.
Trevor
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