How to control video playing by trigger in Storyline 2 file

Hi Yan, Yes this is possible.

First create a new trigger and then choose, Play/Pause/Stop media as the action. 

1) Basic control: start to play/pause/stop video by trigger

When: Select the appropriate trigger action to play/Pause/Stop the video, e.g. button clicked or variable reached .etc

2. Advance control: play video at a specific time (like 30") initiated by trigger

In the When field, click "Timeline Reaches".

This now offers a new option for When. You can now select the timimg in seconds for when you want the start/stop/pause to be triggered.

Best of  luck with it!

Sean

Hello! I have a follow up question: Is it possible to create a trigger that tells the movie to go back a certain amount of time? I was thinking of adding a shape that rests on top of the video that the user could click which would "rewind" the video by 10 seconds.

We can't allow our users to advance forward in the video, but do want to give them the ability to go back in the event they miss something. I've been racking my brain trying to figure out how to do this and I've come up with nothing. 

There is no way to navigate/rewind to a specific frame in an embedded video. 

Addition question Michael (dial & slider guru) can you use a dial (SL3) to control video playback?

Im thinking of trying closed captions over a video and i think the captions may 'visually interfere' with the normal video playback controls in SL, so i was thinking of adding a dial to control the video?

Hi Garry, beyond pause/continue/stop, there is no way to control a video's timeline. Are you using SL360 for closed captions? If yes, then you can place your video so that the built-in CC doesn't overlap the video. See here for a quick example.

Hi M, no  using  SL 3. Thanks.

Hi Garry, 

Storyline 3 also has closed captioning as a feature and you can read more about how to set it up here. 

Hello,

Is there any way to use triggers to control video that we insert in the timeline

I created a training video, with few chapters and topics and I wanna give the users the flexibility of jumping to certain time in the video, by clicking the button so they can view the topics they wanna see.

Hello Surendar and welcome to E-Learning Heroes :) 

That is a great idea and one that I have seen discussed among users.

You may find some benefit in either of these threads where users discussed this here and here.

You can submit a feature request here as well.

Hi there!

I am having trouble keeping a video paused until the user triggers it to start playing.   I added a trigger to the video to play only when the state of a certain object is selected, but for some reason, it just keeps on starting with the timeline.

Thank you,

Marina

Hi Marina

on the video options tab - check what Play Video option is selected

Wendy, you have saved my day again!  Thank you so much!  I can't believe I missed that!  

Good to hear - fresh set of eyes can help.