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From: Chris Molland on 14 Jan 2008 07:57
Hello,

I am trying to "drive" a movie's frame being displayed by allowing the user to
drag a graphic along a horizontal bar beneath the movie. Just like scrubbing a
movie.

I have been successfully doing this for years with QuickTime, no problem with
a little scripting. However I have been asked to produce a web delivered
package which is going to be deployed on a company's intranet with a standard
XP Pro system on the PCs (no QuickTime).

Would anyone have any advise how I could place a movie (wmv or avi) on the
screen and using a graphic placed on a path (calculating the percentage along
the path and determining the frame to display) force the appropriate frame to
display? We want to use our own graphics for the "slider bar" and not a
standard User Interface.

I have had limited success using the Windows Media Player ActiveX control. It
works but performs very poorly and is a little unreliable. Of course it is
possible we are not implementing it correctly. There seems to be little
information available to guide any user.

Thank you for your help.

Regards

Chris

From: Chris Molland on 14 Jan 2008 08:21
Just a thought - could I export my movie as a Flash movie and then control it?

Regards

Chris
From: Chris Forecast on 14 Jan 2008 11:42
"Chris Molland" <webforumsuser(a)macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Would anyone have any advise how I could place a movie (wmv or avi) on the
> screen and using a graphic placed on a path (calculating the percentage
> along the path and determining the frame to display) force the appropriate
> frame to display? We want to use our own graphics for the "slider bar" and
> not a standard User Interface.

I seem to recall that there's a ShowMe that does this, movctrls?

Chris Forecast





From: Steve Howard on 14 Jan 2008 23:20
> Just a thought - could I export my movie as a Flash movie and then control
> it?

Yes. Flash has native movie controller code that you can just drop right
onto your movie. I'd use that in preference to Authorware.

Steve

From: Chris Molland on 15 Jan 2008 04:18
Thank you Steve,

Before I prepare my Flash movie, which option would perform best:
[bullet]Create an swf file of only the movie and place the scripting for the
"slider" in AW.
Create an flv file of only the movie and place the scripting for the "slider"
in AW.
Create an swf file including the "slider" and place the complete interactive
Flash file in AW.[/bullet]
I would be interested to hear of other user's experiences in placing Flash
media in AW.

Thank you.

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