A sample is up on Rev Online:
Go to "Education" or user space "Sivakatirswami" and check out "Two Movies"
This stack loads two.SMIL files into two player objects , from our
server in San Francisco, which then stream two movies, one underneath
and the other on top.
I would be really interested in testers.
It's working on OSX. Does it work on Windows?
Sivakatirswami
Sivakatirswami wrote:
OK yes! this works:
1) create stack window: set background to black
2) create player object in center of stack window, set player to no
control...call it "bgMovie" "Background Movie
3) Create substack "topMovie" with smaller "player1", position stack
on top of main stack, over the background movie.
4) set decorations for stack "topMovie" to none and shrink stack
window to fit exactly under the rect of player 1.
Then off to the side of the bg movie on the mainstack card put this
button:
on mouseUp
start player "bgMovie"
palette "topMovie"
start player "Player1" of stack "topMovie"
end mouseUp
OK, works beautifully. background movie is running underneath,
top movie is playing, audio tracks from both are coming thru.
note, its important to make sure you "palette" the topmovie stack. It
behaves the same as a palette, even though decorations are off, which
means if the user clicks on the background card of the mainstack,
the topMovie stack sticks on the top layer of the video card.. if you
"topLevel "topMovie" then when you click on the main stack, the
topMovie drops out to the back. "disappears" from the user though
it's sound track is still running of course... its there, just
underneath the mainstack.
OK, this has lots of possibilities! (smile) Now, if I can figure out
how to mask the top movie so that is is not just an ugly square rect,
this actually may begin to look professional...and if we can stream
the two movies over the net simultaneously... :-)
I think I should post a stack to RevOnline and get some tests done on
Windows..
so next question would be, how to mask a movie so it has rounded
corners, radius, say 12 pixels, with gaussian blur, feathered edges
from full opacity on the inside to transparent on the outer edges...
Sivakatirswami
Brian Yennie wrote:
A couple of suggestions, although I can't confirm how far they will
take you:
1) set the alwaysBuffer of the movies to TRUE -- this is generally
required for layering movies with any object(s)
2) If you can't get everything running in one window, perhaps you
could consider using multiple windows, with one floating borderless
on top of the other
HTH,
Brian
Another one of my "ask for the moon" queries:
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