SL Video options: Looping and layering?

Daniel,

Yes and Yes. See attached .story file.

The key is to have the media play when it completes.

Mike,

Thank you, worked as advertised.

Boy, that didn't work for me. I checked your sample, thank you, but in my SL2 the video didn't loop. Just stopped at the cute little koalas.

I tried the same settings on my vid. My original vid was 7secs, then I edited it Camtasia to loop without the player and it worked in Windows Media Player....not so much in SL2.

Am I doing something incorrectly?

Much love!

H MaNaCHa,

Can you post your SL file so we can take a look? Also, I don't think the looping command that you added in Camtasia will carry out in SL. It'll still be about the triggers.

Thanks!

Mike

Hi Mike,

I will pull the slide from within the project.

I do see what you're saying and did use the trigger command...which I so dearly enjoy.

I also published the project locally and many of the animations were not working. But for now, let's work on the looping.

Please hold while I upload.

Please find attached.

SHaLaWah (thank you/Peace)!

MaNaCha, 

I'm seeing the same thing with your file. If I add a different video, the triggers work. I'm guessing there's something up with your video file. Do you have the original (non camtasia looped) video that you could share? I'd like to test it to see what the problem might be. 

Mike

I'll share the original vid with you, and only you, if you promise to; recite the alphabet 3 times...with one eye open and swear to secrecy that you want share this $1million video.

Ok, ok. See attached.

Mike,

I just switched out the vid with the original and it didn't work for me.

Hi MaNaCHa,

I'm not sure why that original video isn't working, but there's certainly something funky going on with it. Usually, when you run an uncooperative video file through Camtasia (I tried this as well to no avail) it will cleanse it of whatever the issue is. However, this isn't the case today. I took the liberty of running the file through Adobe Media Encoder and that seemed to clean it up. There's still a bit of stutter between the loops (on my end anyway) but it does loop now.

I wish I had more insights to share, but I'm stumped as to why the video file isn't working as expected. I'm attaching the cleaned file.

Mike

Thanks Mike,

Yes, the cleaned file, hiccuped once...looped once, and didn't play again.

I appreciated all your time and effort. I will go back to the subscription source/provider to see if the vid is encoded or something.

If I learn anything new I'll hit ya back!

Have a wonderful evening!

Darn!

Yes, it should just keep looping. I'd love to hear what you find out in case this comes up again.

Thanks!

Mike

Hi Mike,

There are no restrictions regarding altering the vid, per the subscription source.

However, to finally resolve the issue, I copied the vid 3 times and stitched them together in Camtasia. Voila! I got the length I needed without the hiccup or the use of triggers.

This work-around method worked beautifully because the scenery doesn't change.

Again, thank you.

SHaLaWah (peace)