On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Brian J Karimzad wrote:
> I have a movie playing in a standalone stack for Solaris. It takes a bit
> of time to load, but the user has the option of going the next section at
> any time (whether the movie is playing or not).
>
> The next section is in a separate stack file. To go to it I use the
> command:
>
> go to card 1 of stack "data/french.mc" in the window of this stack
>
> Occasionally, but with no apparent regularity, the movie will decide to
> start playing on top of the second stack, even though no command there
> tells it to.
>
> This only happens in Solaris, and only when I go to the second stack
> before the movie has had a chance to load. I am just using a play
> videoclip looping command in the first stack, and send a play stop
> videoclip when the user clicks to go to the second stack.
>
> Any leads?
There is a brief interval between when you start a movie on UNIX and
when you can stop it. This is due to the process creation time, and
is not a problem on the other platforms because the movies are played
by libraries, not separate processes. About all you can do to work
around this is to check to see how long it's been since you started
the player. If less than a second or two (depending on the speed of
the particular system, unfortunately) then throw in a wait before you
stop the player.
Regards,
Scott
> Thanks much.
>
> -Brian
>
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