Apache :: How to click on a button and play a video

aprilcomingsoon · Joined: 03 Jun 2010 Posts: 6

I use render tool to play a video.
$RenderTool.renderInline($SearchTool.getByID("6b78a4fd-0a19-4033-015c-c48bd3b4e2b0"), 'Front Page Video')

But each time i open the website and the video automatically starts. Is there a way to play the video until I click the "start "button?

thanks, [/code]

James Blond

Which Software / programming language do you use? OTOH The generated html code is the important and the streaming software you use. e.g. Flashplayer or just embed code?

aprilcomingsoon · Joined: 03 Jun 2010 Posts: 6

I use Apache Velocity and html in dreamweaver. After finishing the coding , i copy the code to Avid News content manager to run it. It is just embedded code.

http://news2.byu.edu/

James Blond

That's easy to solve. Inside the URL there is a autostart=true just set it to false Wink

aprilcomingsoon · Joined: 03 Jun 2010 Posts: 6

"autostart" works for the regular html. but when i use Velocity render tool as below, it is not working.

<embed $RenderTool.renderInline($SearchTool.getByID("6b78a4fd-0a19-4033-015c-c48bd3b4e2b0"), 'Front Page Video') autostart="false"></embed>

by the way , i try not using $RenderTool.renderInline but only $SearchTool.getByID as following. But no video is showing on the website this time.

<object height="344" width="500">
<param value="$SearchTool.getByID("6b78a4fd-0a19-4033-015c-c48bd3b4e2b0")" name="movie" />

<param value="true" name="allowFullScreen" />
<param value="always" name="allowscriptaccess" /><embed height="344" width="500" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" param autostart="false" src="$SearchTool.getByID("6b78a4fd-0a19-4033-015c-c48bd3b4e2b0")" value></embed></object>

James, do you have any thoughts.?

James Blond

I took a look at your website and you "loop" to much code Wink

html , head, body repeated too often.

Did I get you wrong? You want to start the video on page load? If yes, it works. When I click on the page the video begins to play.

aprilcomingsoon · Joined: 03 Jun 2010 Posts: 6

James , i do not want to start the video on page load. I want to click "start " button and then the video begins. "autostart = "false" " is not working when i am using velocity render tool

thanks

aprilcomingsoon · Joined: 03 Jun 2010 Posts: 6

i solved the problem . i created two files.

$RenderTool.renderInline($SearchTool.getByID("6b78a4fd-0a19-4033-015c-c48bd3b4e2b0"), 'JW FLV FRONT2')

JW FLV FRONT2 refers to second file which is below
$MetaData.set($MetaData.NAME, 'JW FLV FRONT2')
$MetaData.set($MetaData.OBJECTTYPE, 'ikASF')
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<object height="400" width="532">
<param value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Is8NkPFN3Ck&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0" name="movie" />

<param value="true" name="allowFullScreen" />
<param value="always" name="allowscriptaccess" /><embed height="400" width="532" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Is8NkPFN3Ck&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0"></embed></object>

But when i use render tool which is $RenderTool.renderInline($SearchTool.getByID("6b78a4fd-0a19-4033-015c-c48bd3b4e2b0"), 'JW FLV FRONT2'), i do not use getByID at all. is there a way to simplify my code
?