[macvillage.net]

I have a quicktime movie, with a "href=", which launches another movie.

Problem is that the first movie keeps on playing...

As a result, it slows to a crawl, and puts excess drain on the streaming server.



How can it be setup (via <object> and <embed>) so that if a user clicks on a movie, it stops playing, then the href activates?

Perhaps some method of javascript?

[mixin visuals]

maybe javascript that closes the previous window?

[macvillage.net]

Originally posted by mixin visuals:
maybe javascript that closes the previous window?

Can't do that. The window is still needed.

The link actually launches an instance of the movie full screen.

So when they are done, they need to go back to that original window for more information.

[clam2000]

well, the good news is there is probably a way to stop the movie via javascript (so clicking on the movie will a) stop it, and b) open another movie full screen)

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/autho...ablejavascript

basicly you need to set the enablejavascript=true argument in you [embed] tag.

I don't know what specific commands you can call from javascript, but there is almost definately a pause command.

http://online.sfsu.edu/~infoarts/tec...avascript.html

says that from javascript you can then call

movname.Stop()

where movname is the name of the embed tag
so you might have something like this:

Code:
[script type='text/javascript' language='javascript']
function launch() {
movename.Stop();
window.open("http://myfullscreenwindow.com",windowname,"width=100%, height=100%,toolbar=no,menubar=no,directories=no");
}
[/script]

hope that helps

--will

[macvillage.net]

Thanks will... that is helpful.

ok, here is what I have (a bit stripped for easy reading).

Code:
[embed src="file.mov" id="movie" href="fullscreen.mov" target="quicktimeplayer" enablejavascript="true"]

(apparantly the board doesn't omit the <embed> tags like I thought it would, hence "<"=="["


That's bascially what I have right now (removed <object>, as well as other garbage, for the sake of making it readable without wasting time.

so how can I employ javascript to this mess?

I understand the little script you wrote... but how can I apply it?

From what I read up on... I need to launch the movie, from within an embed tag, to ensure it's picked up by QT player.


Thanks for your help.



Ironically I found that exact same page earlier.


(ah, 2:00 now... one more hour and work is over for a few days ;-) )

This little task of "the perfect QT video" has been a pain in the butt.

But interesting at the same time.

[clam2000]

can you do something like:

Code:
[script type=text/javascript]
function launch() {
// with netscape (you'll need to do 2 versions
getelementByID('movie').Stop();
// for other browsers
document.movie.Stop();
return fullscreen.mov;
}
[/script]
...
[embed src="file.mov" id="movie" href="javascript:launch()" target="quicktimeplayer" enablejavascript="true" target="quicktimeplayer"]

(hopefully what that ends up doing is when the href is executed it goes to the normal place, and stops the movie as it does

--will

[macvillage.net]

Thanks...

Will pick up with that 9:00 monday morning.


BBQ here I come!

Happy 4th!

[macvillage.net]

The movie right now plays through an SMIL file.

Is there a way using SMIL to have an option?.

[macvillage.net]

Does quicktime support the sourceplaystate tag? As defined in the SMIL standard?