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

[Guest]

(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.

[HimanshuSatija]

Hello Niel,

I am afraid that you can not use the loop option for video but you can insert a replay button on you slide.

You can insert a button and apply an advanced action on it .

Thanks and Regard

Himanshu Satija

[RodWard]

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?

[Guest]

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. 

[RodWard]

Perhaps you can use the techniques explained in this tutorial:

http://www.infosemantics.com.au/adobe-captivate-advanced-actions/jump-to-dynamically-captured-slide

[Guest]

That's exactly what I want to do.  Many thanks, I'll give it a try.

Update: that's really sweet and does exactly what I want.  I know I need a better knowledge of system variables and what they can do, but even then I think I'd have struggled, and probably wouldn't have figured out the '-1'.

Next time I'm in Perth (family over there) I'll buy you a beer.

[RodWard]

If you really want to become more proficient with Variables and Advanced Actions then you might like my book:

http://www.infosemantics.com.au/adobe-captivate-advanced-actions

It'll cost you more than a beer, but the benefits will last a lot longer.

(The blog post you read is actually now part of that book, and you get practice files as well. )

[Timothy28675047zj1d]

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.