Movies stop playing

Question

This is only my second project using Director (MX2004) - and
I am having a problem with AVI Video playback. Normally I create
some buttons and when a user selects a button I jump to a marker
and play a video. So I dont have to account for all of the frames I
loop it until the "duration" of the movie is complete - then return
somewhere. However, my videos in this project are stopping well
short of the end.
Example: I have a movie whose durations is 15436.
Code looks something like this
on exit frame me
if the movietime of sprite 5 = 15436 then go "Some Marker"
else go to the frame
end if
end
I monitor the movietime in the message window and it never
makes it even close to the end.
Since I only have 4 videos - I didn't mind hardcoding the
duration like that rather than programatically. I got the duration
of each video by going into the message window and using:
Put the duration of sprite 5
This has worked for me before and I cant figure out why my
movies arent making it till the end. Project or import setting? Any
help would be appreciated.
Thank you!
I forgot to mention that the video's stop in the same spot
everytime (movietime)
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Answer 1

Hi,
I'd say rather than wait for the movieTime to equal a value,
use something like the
following:
on exitFrame
if sprite(X).movieTime < cast(Y).duration then
go the frame
else
go to "marker"
end if
end
It's best to test the duration of the video cast member
rather than the sprite. You
could use
(sprite(1).member).duration
But that may not be the cause of the problem, may be a quirk
in the video. I
actually don't like AVIs. It's avery old format. What codec
are you using with the
AVI? How big are th file sizes of the video?
regards
Dean
Director Lecturer / Consultant
http://www.fbe.unsw.edu.au/learning/director
http://www.multimediacreative.com.au