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Transition on button press after media has ended

pro2040

November 23, 2011 00:44

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I have a scenario where a client would like to play a short looping video and when a button is pressed play a longer video, once that longer video is done go back to the short looping video. No problem right... but what they would like to have is that when a button is pressed the short looping video plays until it ends then the longer video plays. Is there a way to achieve this, I havent seen a way to do this through brightauthor? Is a custom script needed or external control system?

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  RokuLyndon November 23, 2011 07:44

  
  
  Yes, this needs a script.  Is this a gpio button? The following does what you describe assuming gpio button 0.
  
  
  
v=createobject("roVideoPlayer")
p=createobject("roMessagePort")
g=createobject("roGpioControlPort")
g.enableinput(0)

g.setport(p)
v.setport(p)

mode=createobject("roVideoMode")
mode.SetMode("1280x720x60p")

avideo$="attract.mov"
bvideo$="video.mov"

aplaying=true
bpressed=false

start:
v.playfile(avideo$)
aplaying=true

listen:
msg = p.GetMessage()
if type(msg) = "roVideoEvent" then
if msg.getint() = 8 then

if aplaying and bpressed then
v.playfile(bvideo$)
bpressed=false
aplaying=false
else
goto start
endif

endif

else if type(msg) = "roGpioButton" then
if msg.getint() =0 then bpressed=true

endif

goto listen
  
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  pro2040 November 23, 2011 09:18

  
  
  Thanks for the info.  We would likely be using the 11 button pad or udp input from and external control system.  What would happen is that each button would start a different video.
  
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  pro2040 November 24, 2011 02:27

  
  
  This may be a silly question but, does this script go in the autorun.brs? If so where?
  
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  RokuLyndon November 24, 2011 07:59

  
  
  This script should be saved as autorun.brs. It's the only thing that should be in the file. I'll need to update it if you want udp control instead of gpio which is what I set it up as.
  
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  pro2040 November 25, 2011 02:26

  
  
  Thanks again,
  I have tried using that code as my autorun.brs but when I try to select it as a custom autorun in BrightAughor I recieve an error.
  
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  RokuLyndon November 27, 2011 00:49

  
  
  It's not a brightauthor script. It's a stand alone one. You just put this script and your content on a flash card. It's not mean to be used with brightauthor.
  
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  Lyndon May 06, 2014 19:15

  This can now be done using brightauthor 3.8, without a custom script. 

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  Kh September 10, 2015 13:38

  Hi Sr. Support America

  Can you tell me how this function can be done with Brightauthor now without a script?

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  Brandon September 14, 2015 16:12

  1. In File>Presentation Properties, Variables tab
     Create a PlayToEnd user variable in BrightAuthor, default value 0
     This variable will keep track of whether the button has been pressed.
  2. On the short video, add a command for
     Other>Reset Variable>PlayToEnd
     This will ensure we don't inherit a button press.
  3. Add your "play to end" button press event to the short video
     Have it Remain on current state
     and add a command for
     Other>Set Variable>PlayToEnd 1
     This will set the PlayToEnd variable to 1 when we receive the button press, but let the short video continue playing.
  4. On the Media End event for the short video
     Click Conditional Targets
     Add a conditional target for
     If PlayToEnd Greater than or equal to 1 (equals will also work here, but it's good practice to cover edge/overflow cases) (then) Transition to the long video

  If you have trouble, add a new Image Zone and put a Live Text state in it to display the value of user variable PlayToEnd - that will debugging.