Avi controll in director 4

[alexrcorvo]

Hello, does anyone knows how to build a button in director, that has the capability do pause and unpause an AVI movie?

It would be very nice if i could get an anwser.

Thank you

Alex from Portugal

 

[Horrid]

I would use quicktime, for some very odd reason pausing avis isn't possible (if i remember correctly) you can pause quicktime though.

sorry, not the aswer you wanted I expect but its the solution i have always ended up with, there are some xtras out there that may help you, have a look on macromedia web site at the list of xtras.

 

[sikelsh]

or you could get MPEG xtra and it gives you all the buttons you need
play pause FF RW, stop and even a time line scrolly thing etc only works on MPEGs though

 

[Baixinha]

To pause the video you have to use:

sprite.movierate=1

And play the video use:

sprite.movierate=0


I hope I helped you.

Cintia from Brazil

 

[Horrid]

Oh yeah, forgot you could do it that way, maybe its audio that you cant pause correctly.
You can also make it play backwards doing this by setting movierate=-1

 

[Baixinha]

In my project the audio pause correctly, but if you have any problem I have a program more complex that works with video without problems too.