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Fast Forward and Rewind for Video Objects (Or Play Video With Offset)

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sven anderson
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Hello,

Is it possible to implement fast forward and rewind of a video object using Brightscript?

If not - is it possible to tell a video to move the 'playhead' to xyz milliseconds into the file?

I need to be able to move through a video file (it is in fact being used as a timer to trigger many events on other players) .. Any thoughts on how to advance / rewind the video would be very helpful.  I notice in the BrightSign Object Reference Manual on Page 17, roVideoEvent and roAudioEvent can return integer values '4 ScanForward' and '5 ScanReverse'  which indicates that there must be some way to get these objects to achieve these functions.  

I'm working in custom autoruns so any advice using BrightScript is what I'm after - not anything related to BrightAuthor.

Thanks!

- Sven

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    Lyndon

    You can't do either of the items requested. You can't fast forward or rewind, or advance to a specific frame. You can add timecode events to a video that's playing so at specific miliseconds during playback you can pause or send off commands, or do both. Video timecode events are covered in the object reference guide.

     

     

     

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    sven anderson

    This clarifies things for me.  I will create the effect of ff / rew on my timer clip by pausing it, calling stopclear, re-attaching the timecoded events as specified by user offset (sent from computer controller over udp), then re-start video with adjusted 'stop' point set.  Thus all timed events will occur as if the 'playhead' had been moved in the timer.  

    Thanks!

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