Video Object

In order to play, stop or control the video, you have to place other controls on the screen with assigned «Interaction with other objects and Video» action or you have to start video from script with PlayVideo.

The video object has two files: The Still image and the video itself.

The Still image stays on the screen when video is closed (it is not playing) and it is a normal bitmap object.

TIP: Wizard can insert video buttons for you.

After you create a video object, select it and click on wizard. Select «Create video controls».

This will create a few bitmap buttons attached to this video object.

Click on an item to get more information:

Mmb00000.gif AVI File.

Mmb00000.gif Hide Still Screen.

Mmb00000.gif Sound.

Mmb00000.gif Speed.

Mmb00000.gif Loop.

Mmb00000.gif Save Still.

Mmb00000.gif Load New.

Advanced

Full Screen
The video will play on full screen. This is supported for AVI. However some MPEG drivers allows full screen some not.

After Video Stop/Finish

After the video stops you can chose one of the actions for example to go to next page or run script.

MASK

With the Mask, video doesn't have to play in rectangular square anymore and it can have any shape you want.

You need to prepare an image mask with size of the video. The video will be played through this mask where the black pixels will be video and white transparent. The mask could have any shape or image (for example black text on white background). You can load the mask in the Video Properties. (Two buttons were added - Load and Clear Mask) You can create a very interesting effects because finally you don't have to be stuck with the boring rectangular video found in many authoring tools...

Mmb00011.gif

MPEG and VideoDisc support.

Remember this is done by MCI – build-in in windows – and using directly device drivers. Since many user can have many device drivers – it could happened some user might not be able to play MPEG or VIDEO disc if they don’t have driver for it.
Also you might try to load MOV (Quick Time) video as well using Video Object. Just type in the Open dialog box *.mov and press enter. Here is even stronger warning – you have 50% chance your system (driver) supports MOV, because this is format of the Apple – the Windows enemy.

The AVI is the safest and sure way in Windows – this is supported in any versions of Windows.

See also MCIObject for playing different video formats