S:VideoDIsplay Jump To and Stop

Question

Hello All.
Im trying to build a custom video player, using the standard flash builder s:VideoDIsplay.  the video is being streamed from a FMS, so jumping forward in the timeline is almost instant and is fine.
I want to add chapters to it, so the user can click to watch only a selected part of the video, for instance from 30 seconds to 40 seconds.
I have this function -
            private function jump():void
                vp.seek(50);
That jumps forward fine,  but i want to be able to add the feature that once the video gets to a certain time, it stops.
For example, running the jump function above will jump you to 50 seconds in, i want to be able to then stop the video at say 60 seconds.
Can anyone help with adding the stopping the video part please?
THanks

Answer 1

hi,
I've updated the example and added a 'click on item to play' datagrid, you could extend this to have the title of the video that you want to play at the moment it just uses your sample video.
It works by looking at the row you clicked on and getting the data from the required fields in the row. I've included my test xml as well
David
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:Application xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
   xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
   xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx" minWidth="955" minHeight="600" creationComplete="application1_creationCompleteHandler(event)">
<fx:Declarations>
<s:HTTPService id="myXML" url="test.xml" resultFormat="e4x"
   result="myXML_resultHandler(event)"/>
</fx:Declarations>
<fx:Script>
<![CDATA[  
import mx.collections.XMLListCollection;
import mx.events.FlexEvent;
import mx.events.ListEvent;
import mx.rpc.events.ResultEvent;
import org.osmf.events.TimeEvent;
private var stopTime:int=0;
[Bindable] private var xmlMainList:XMLListCollection = new XMLListCollection();
protected function application1_creationCompleteHandler(event:FlexEvent):void
myXML.send();
private function JumpAndStop(jumpTo:int, stopAt:int=0): void
if (stopAt > jumpTo)
stopTime=stopAt else stopTime=0;
vp.seek(jumpTo);
vp.play();
protected function vp_currentTimeChangeHandler(event:TimeEvent):void
if (event.time > stopTime) vp.stop();
protected function myXML_resultHandler(event:ResultEvent):void
xmlMainList.source = event.result.children();
dg.dataProvider=xmlMainList;
protected function dg_itemClickHandler(event:ListEvent):void
var st:int = event.itemRenderer.data.@start;
var et:int = event.itemRenderer.data.@stop;
JumpAndStop(st,et);
]]>
</fx:Script>
<s:VGroup gap="5" horizontalCenter="0">
<s:Button label="Button" click="JumpAndStop(200,220)"/>
<s:VideoDisplay id="vp" source="rtmp://88.208.202.35/vod/Extremists.flv" currentTimeChange="vp_currentTimeChangeHandler(event)"/>
<mx:DataGrid id="dg" width="100%" height="200" itemClick="dg_itemClickHandler(event)">
<mx:columns>
<mx:DataGridColumn headerText="Title" dataField="@title"/>
<mx:DataGridColumn headerText="Category" dataField="@category"/>
<mx:DataGridColumn headerText="Start" dataField="@start"/>
<mx:DataGridColumn headerText="Finish" dataField="@stop"/>
</mx:columns>
</mx:DataGrid>
</s:VGroup>
</s:Application>
<?xml v
ersion="1.0"?>
<films>
<film title="Jump" category="comedy" start="20" stop="40"/>
<film title="Jumpy" category="drama" start="30" stop="50"/>
<film title="Jumper" category="thriller" start="40" stop="60"/>
</films>