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RTMP video with inner chapters Created Oct 28, 2009

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eavesdropper

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RTMP video with inner chapters

Posted: Oct 28, 2009

Hi,

Currently I have a player that has an html playlist, so a video is broken into let's say 10 videos that are different files. The problem is that between each jump from a video to another there is a little loading which doesn't look nice.

My goal is to have only 1 video file with some chapters associated, so when a viewer clicks on a chapter in the playlist, instead of loading a new video, it simply jumps the scrub bar to a new position.

Is that possible with Flowplayer? I haven't found any info the documentation nor the tutorials. I know JW flv can do that.

Thank you very much.

eavesdropper

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» RTMP video with inner chapters

Posted: Oct 30, 2009

Reply to: RTMP video with inner chapters, from eavesdropper
Actually it doils down to:

1) Does flowplayer support html chapters that can control the seekbar?
2) Does flowplayer ship with means to do that?
3) if not, is there a javascript plugin for that?

Thanks for helping me out. I don't want to start working on that and suddenly discover that it already exist.

eavesdropper

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» » RTMP video with inner chapters

Posted: Nov 3, 2009

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No one does that?

Hoyle

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» » » RTMP video with inner chapters

Posted: Nov 3, 2009

Reply to: » » RTMP video with inner chapters, from eavesdropper
We're interested to learn this too. Trying to implement a playlist with streaming MP4 or FLV right now through SimpleCDN and FlowPlayer. Any help would be much appreciated!

eavesdropper

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» RTMP video with inner chapters

Posted: Nov 12, 2009

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Up. An answer please. Is it possible or not to create an html playlist that references a specific time in the video so that the user can jump from one point to another just like a chapter would do.

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» » RTMP video with inner chapters

Posted: Nov 12, 2009

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Sketch:


var p = $f("container", "flowplayer.swf", {
  clip: {
    url: "myvideo.flv"
    // etc.
  }
});

// element with id "chap1" could be a button, an image or ...
document.getElementById("chap1").onclick = function () {
  // assuming chapter 1 starts at 10 seconds into the movie
  p.seek(10);
  // if element with id "chap1" is a href:
  // return false;
};

You might have to jump through more hoops if the clip is not started yet. But it is definitely possible, albeit not with any existing plugin (yet). You could generate the "chapter playlist" via JavaScript etc.

I've done something like it for an mp3 file here. If you don't mind the extremely terse aesthetics ;-), the functionality is there.

eavesdropper

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» RTMP video with inner chapters

Posted: Nov 16, 2009

Reply to: RTMP video with inner chapters, from eavesdropper
Smashin'! That's exactly what I was looking for!

Thank your very much for your tip :)