Multiple DVD's ?? Please help.

Question

Hi All,
thanks to the folks that helped me with the last video issue.
I have a projetor that needs to play multiple videos. I have
exported from Adobe Premiere Pro to 3 DVDs in separate target
folders on the HDD. I have inserted 3 media members (DVDs) in to
the cast of my movie and using lingo in the first frame have
specified the .folder for each member (this part seems to work ok
as when I check the properties for the cast member folder it is
showing the correct location i.e /movie1, /movie2 and /movie3
respectively)
The problem I'm having is at playback and even in the DVD
preview panel when I double click teh cast members - it is
consistently only showing the first movie. How can I get the other
two movies to load and play when required?
Any help would be appreciated as my time line is running
quite short.
Best Regards
Chris

Answer 1

Hi Dean,
The 2Gig limit must have been the issue. I assumed that this
had been addressed as the 3Gig video played fine in WMP but would
only play part thereof in DirMX2004. I took it below 2Gig and it
worked ok, but unfortunately the quality wasn’t acceptable
(cinepak codec at 67%) as you can imagine. So I took the originals
and re-exported them from Premiere Pro to DVD specifying a folder
location as opposed to a drive. I didn’t need to change the
code much just things like movieTime to currentTime and
sprite(1).playRate=1 to sprite(1).play(). Also had to change values
from ticks to milliseconds. I may have to use the Xtra solution if
I can’t fix it this way.
Hi Otterman
No I hadn’t tried loading them into the same cast
member. I had referenced their folder locations in the same manner
but then assigned them to DVDMember1, 2, and 3 respectively in
frame 1:
member(“DVDmember1”).folder=the
moviePath&”DVD\movie1”
member(“DVDmember2”).folder=the
moviePath&”DVD\movie2”
member(“DVDmember3”).folder=the
moviePath&”DVD\movie3”
As I’d already made 3 DVD cast members with
Insert>Media element>DVD and named them as above I just
dragged these to create the sprite on the stage at the times I
needed 1, 2 and 3.
Maybe forcing it into the same cast member will remove the
previous DVD from memory and allow the next one to play. I tried
unloading the previous DVD member from memory with lingo before
referencing the next one but this didn’t work either. It just
kept playing sprite 1 as the same DVDmember1 each time. I will try
it as a single DVD cast member and will let you know how it works.
Thank you both for your posts, will post back shortly with
the result.
Best Regards
Chris