Button that pauses the event video...

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November 3, 2016
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Hello there..

I work on Capt. 8. On my slide there is a video attached, also an event video and some other shape buttons that has an actions of opening an URLs. When these buttons are pressed, the URLs are opened on a new tab and the slide video is paused ( which I assigned ) but I can't control the event video itself. I want it to pause either... Is there a way of pausing the event video ( like the one in this situation ) by a shape button with some kind of an advanced action please??? Thanks...

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ralantessAuthor

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TLCMediaDesign, I tried every possible thing... İt is obvious that the issue has something to do with MY project. Appreciate the help you preserved...

ralantessAuthor

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Yes, exactly.

TLCMediaDesign

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You said you had two videos on the same slide, did you try document.getElementsByTagName("video")[0].pause();

What the script does is it gets all of the elements that have a tag name of video and puts them in an array. So if there is only one video the array has only one index which is 0. If there are two videos they are 0 or 1.

You could take the script further to actually see which one is playing and pause that one or you could just pause them both if two exist.

ralantessAuthor

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Thanks for the response.

I am executing the script in the relevant slide with an advanced action. What you mean by DOM please??thanks

TLCMediaDesign

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The Document Object Model, it's everything that is in the browser window. Are you executing the JavaScript in the "current window" from the Dropdown attached to the Execute JavaScript?

ralantessAuthor

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Don't understand why but when I preview next 5 slides it is working, but when I preview project it is not... I guess it has something to do with the name "video" in the script. It searches the "video" in the whole project and ends up with an issue. My project includes 6 slides and this one is in the middle. any idea please?? Thanks

TLCMediaDesign

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When are you executing the script? It needs to be done when the video is in the DOM, actually in the browser window. the script can't find a video that is on a different slide.

ralantessAuthor

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Hello TLCMediaDesign, your script worked like a charm... Thanks a lot.

Found out finally that the problem was the stacking order on my timeline.

ralantessAuthor

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my event video is .mp4 format. What is yours pls? does it make a diff? appreciate for your help.

TLCMediaDesign

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Yes it's an mp4. Can you show me your JavaScript?

ralantessAuthor

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Didn't work...Both videos are overlapping. event video appears over last seconds of slide video. Slide video's last frame stays till the end. Timeline's stacking order is something like this;

TLCMediaDesign

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If the event video is not yet encountered when the button is clicked it won't pause.

This is my timeline and JavaScript window and this does pause the video. If I stagger the video so that they don't overlap the index for the video tag is 0.