2022 Strategies for Managing Linked Media

Hello all! Over the years, I have observed different ways to handle slide events when dealing with linked media; for the purpose of this discussion, we will talk about videos.

We all know that when you link a video externally, you now have a separate timeline (the video's) that plays independently of your slide timeline.

If you want the learner to be prompted to go to the next slide or trigger a next button to appear when the video is done, the "old" (and only, as far as I know) way to do it is to make your slide timeline about the same length as the video and have it be a timeline event. In theory the learner would start watching and the video would end about the same time as the slide timeline and the next button would pop up.

Of course this is inelegant for obvious reasons. If the learner pauses or rewinds the video, the timing will be off, etc, etc.

I had once heard of there perhaps being a way to have the video source page fire a javascript trigger or some other sorcery that the Storyline wrapper could "hear."

Has anyone come up with a newer, better solution to handle this issue? Thanks!