Pan and Tilt at a certain point in Video playback

[tcoursey]

Is there a way/plugin that will allow one to pan or tilt or other function when at a certain point in a video? Would I use cuepoints, listener for timing of the video?

Thoughts? Thanks.

[LepLep]

you would surely need some custom plugin to do that

eiether you could monitor flvplayer progress from another plugin or rewrite it to trigger your functions

[allSaints]

I have uploaded a new version (V1.2) of my moviebox plugin, which has support for que points.

I have a test page here (http://wirestam.com/panos/Flash/moviebox/mbtest5.html).

The video in this test page has 4 que points at: 11, 22, 32 and at 38 seconds.


Tommy

[tcoursey]

Thats exactly what I think we were thinking. I am guessing your are calling some functions to fire at these que points, so what ever you want to happen could happen. Pan Tilt, Custom Function etc.

Where do I download/buy your plugin? Is it available yet? beta....

thanks.

[allSaints]

tcoursey,

you can execute any FPP commands at the que points, and you are welcome to download it from my plugin page (http://wirestam.com/panos/Flash/plugins/). No charge.


Tommy

[tcoursey]

Tommy,

I'm finally getting around to implementing some code for your MovieBox. I am struggling with a few things.

Is there a way to have the movie load but not play at first?
How about making it visible or not?

Basically what we want to do is have a Video Play button on our interface that will bring up the MovieBox and play the video. We will then put a Close button or similar on the interface of the video to allow them to close the video if they do not wish to complete it.

Is this possible through your current code? If so, maybe a nuge into what I should look at. Thanks.

[allSaints]

tcoursey,

I have just completed a new version of the moviebox plugin where you can play each movie individually or run them all as a program. Play, pause and stop commands already exist for each movie.

You can have a sneak preview here (http://wirestam.com/panos/Flash/moviebox/mbtest3.html).


Tommy

[broma]

Tommy,
thanks for this gift, there is a command to stop show the tool tip when there is not video in the spot/box?

Bruno Napoli

[allSaints]

Hi Bruno,

well, I hadn't noticed that the tooltip remains when the video has finished.

But I think there is one problem. The tooltip is displayed by the usual tooltip plugin, so the moviebox plugin just assigns a string to the "alt" attribute of the video <spot>. So, when a video has stopped, I can assign an empty string to the "alt" attribute. But then the tooltip plugin will show a small empty tooltip baloon - and that is nothing I can change. I don't know of any way to remove the "alt" attribute - just to empty it.


Tommy

[broma]

Hi Tommy,
sorry but, I use Firefox 3.5.4 end Intenet Explorer on Windows XP and with all of two the tooltip appears when the mouse is over the spot and the video is finished.
Maybe it's an idea, unlink/unload the mask but... how?

Bruno Napoli

[allSaints]

Bruno,

I don't think you understood my answer.

Yes, the tooltip is still there when the video is finished, because I havn't thought about removing it. But even if I do remove it, there will still be a small empty tooltip baloon left, because the tooltip.swf plugin (which does not seem to be very intelligent) will still show it - even if I empty the "alt" attribute.

Tommy

[broma]

Tommy,
ok now thanks... I have to put more attention, expecially if I use the tooltip plugin ;-)

Bruno Napoli

[tcoursey]

Tommy,

Thanks for the extra development. Your always thinking.

As for the tooltip issue, and bare with me, because I'm not a plugin developer so I don't know all the in's and outs.

But could you implement a Visible attribute that could be toggled on and off. That way we could code a video to "pop-up" and then either allow AutoPlay or click to play as you have already implemented.

That could help get rid of the bounding box HAND cursor and empty tooltip issue.

Just a thought. Work in progress I know. Thanks.

[allSaints]

tcoursey,

I'll see if I can also implement an automatic visible=false when no video is playing - I guess that would be optimal.

Tommy

[uudu]

In Google Group -files, there is flvplayerx by Wizzy, what recognize the end of video. Posted info June 23 .

onFinish="doSomething/function"
you can fire commands or (xml)functions

Is it, what you are looking for?

[allSaints]

See this thread (http://flashpanoramas.com/forum/showthread.php?p=15529#post15529) for a new version of the moviebox plugin.


Tommy