I've added a button with a trigger to one of my slides to run a MP4 file. I can set it up to run in another window with no problem. My problem is when I set the trigger to run the file, it appears as a large rectangle on top of my slide blocking everything on the slide. So when I test my file it is just one big black rectangle. This is the first time I have run into this issue, and have no problems with SWF files.
1) Have the video on a lightbox slide. Your trigger just invokes the lightbox slide.
2) Use two slides that look like one to the user. Put the video on slide 2 and have it the size you want. Have it play when the slide is accessed. Take a screenprint of the video's first frame and put it on the first slide in the same spot. Put a play button on it that's just a trigger that moves to the next slide. If using the side TOC menu, be sure to remove slide 2 from the TOC.
3) Have the video as a web object. Have the controls to play the video on the video itself in the web object.
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1) Have the video on a lightbox slide. Your trigger just invokes the lightbox slide.
2) Use two slides that look like one to the user. Put the video on slide 2 and have it the size you want. Have it play when the slide is accessed. Take a screenprint of the video's first frame and put it on the first slide in the same spot. Put a play button on it that's just a trigger that moves to the next slide. If using the side TOC menu, be sure to remove slide 2 from the TOC.
3) Have the video as a web object. Have the controls to play the video on the video itself in the web object.
Thank you, Gerry! I like how that looks, I've followed your instructions and have sent it to my supervisor for his review.
Glad you got the help you needed here, and you didn't mention how you're inserting the video - so just in case, I wanted to point out that there is a known issue where videos inserted from a website can obscure elements of the player.
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