Audio/video - better controls - or different player?

Jun 24, 2014

Is there way of inserting better controls for the media players (especially audio)?

Alternatively is there a way of inserting the HTML5 player <audio> or <video> tag in storyline? How would you do that?

Thanks for any help.

Andrew

6 Replies
Andrew Lian

Hello Ashley and Sophia,

Just as a followup - and I do not play often with Articulate.... I have another question and a suggestion for Sophia.

The question (for Ashley):

Am I right that the only way to play a sound when it is inserted is to do so automatically? I would like to be able to click on the little speaker and play the sound (nothing more than that - but I do not want it to start playing automatically) - I do not seem to have that capability. Is that right? I am looking for something simple with no layers or triggers.

And the suggestion for Sophia (which is messy but works): translate your audio file to a video format. You will then be able to insert controls. Reduce the size of the screen to something very small and you will have the controls that you want.

All the best to both of you

Andrew

 

Ashley Terwilliger-Pollard

Hi Andrew,

Correct, if you do not want to add triggers to play the audio (or show a layer where the audio is) the only option would be to play the audio based on when the timeline of the audio file begins or the timeline of the overall slide. You mentioned clicking something, that'll be where you'd place the trigger - to play audio when the user clicks. 

Hope that helps clarify. 

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