How do I make a .mp4 "video" loop in the same way as an "animation"?

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February 6, 2014
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(Captivate 7)

I want a slide to contain a looping slide show of photographs. I don't want to do this as an animated .GIF because the resolution isn't good enough, and I don't want to do it as a .SWF because I want it to work on Mobile. My only choice seems to be to create a .MP4 and insert that, but then I'm not given the "loop" option.

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Timothy28675047zj1d

Participant

Hello Apple Quicktime Pro 7, allowed you to set videos to loop and even to loop back and forth. Apple Quicktime 7 pro was end of life years ago. I'd love to find a cuurent option to replace its capability.

RodWard

Community Expert

Why are you trying to do this all on one slide? That's just making life difficult.

Why not just have several slides each with a different photograph and then have the on exit event of the final slide jump back to the first slide?

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Anonymous

This particular slide is on a branch, and has to have a "back" button that "goes to the slide last visited". It would therefore just go around in a loop if I took that approach. I could write a script 'on enter' to assign a variable with the number of the slide last visited, run through a sequence of looping slides as you describe, and have an advanced action 'back' button to go back to the appropriate slide. But I can't see a way of doing that with the advanced action expression builder provided.

My alternative approach was to link to a looping youtube video, but I was having all kinds of problems with that as well (all in another thread).

Ideally, we should be able to set a video to loop in the same way as an animation.