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mikey98733988
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April 24, 2021
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Video keeps playing after pop up window is closed

  • April 24, 2021
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I'm using the most recent Indesign CC and Publish Online.

 

I've pasted in a YouTube HTML code for a video, and have made a button with two states.

State One is a play button, clicking it takes you to State Two, which is the video itself. It's designed to look like the video window appears on your screen like a pop-up.

 

It plays fine, the problem is if I click a close button I made that takes you back to State One where the video no longer appears, the damn thing keeps playing in the background, as the sound continues.

 

Because the video dows not reside on my computer - it's the code you copy when sharing from YouTube - I can't just make a button action that stops the media from playing. How can I make the video stop playing when you go back to State One, or is there another way to do this entirely? Thanks.

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    Correct answer Diane Burns

    Bob is the MSO master :-), so do look into the extension he mentions. 

    Keep in mind, though, you can set a button to not only PLAY video but to STOP, PAUSE, etc.

     

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    Stéphane5E5B
    Participant
    December 7, 2021

    Hi mikey,

     

    Im actually facing the same damn issue, having a popup video, that keeps playing once u pressed play button even if u switched to different state that makes your video disapear.

    When I think about it, I feel stupid for not realising that, and it's damn logic.

     

    Nevertheless, since Indesign is still facing more important issues, I assume that for now, there arent any magic button to check that says "stop playing media" or "stop playing media for this state" etc..

     

    This said, since Indesign allows you to embed video/media on different object's states, there HAVE TO BE something to shut the video that might be thought to disapear.

     

    I would really like to be wrong, so that's why im posting, at least this post will be going up the thread.

     

    Where are you indesign super hero guy ?

    Regards,

    BobLevine
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    BobLevineCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    December 7, 2021

    The button to change states can have more than one action so try setting it to stop playing the video and then go to the other state. For this to work, you'll need to put the buttons into the MSO itself. This free extension can take a bit of the pain out of buttons in MSOs: Object States Assistant for Adobe InDesign – Automatication

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      Stéphane5E5B
      Participant
      December 10, 2021

      Hi bob and thanks for the reply, I'll give a try this object state assistant !

       

      That might be the trick I / we are looking for. What if, as mikey explained my video is also a pasted youtube video code ? would your extension work ?

       

      Regards.

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