Video and Timeline

I've created video time triggering systems for clients, but the solution involve third party video players which expose programmatic interfaces to their players. JWPlayer is one such player, as well as FlowPlayer. Triggering at specific millisecond accuracy can be tricky as network congestion can induce jitter in the video playback with most players opting to drop video frames vs. audio if bandwidth hiccups.

Hi Danny,

Setting the timing of a trigger will be based on a timeline event or the timeline timing itself, not on a video time.

It sounds like Brian has a strategy that may help you out, so hopefully he can share more if you need help! 

You may not want to do it, but shortening the video can help. Cutting the video into chunks of no more than a couple of minutes per slide helps a couple of ways.

Loading a smaller chunk is likely less vulnerable to buffering problems.

SL may be pre-loading a couple of slides at a time, if I understand correctly how it operates. That means that by the time you get halfway through one video, you may have the next one or two mostly loaded, which gives you quite a bit of leeway.

And if you do have buffering issues, it all gets reset when the next slide starts if you jump when media ends. ("When media ends" is the only SL trigger based on actual media timelines.) If you lose a second in the early part of a 30 minute video, you are lost forever; if you lose it in a 1 minute video, you're back on track in less than a minute.

Just an idea, and you may not want to be that serious about it all.

Hi Ashley,

I was wondering about your statement : the video time is not the timeline timing.

When the video starts when the timeline starts, we kind of expect the video time and the timeline timing to be synchronized.

Could you please point me to the page where this difference is documented ?

Thank you :)

Hi Philippe,

Although a video and a timeline may have the same length and play for a certain period of time, if you're users were to pause the video the slide timeline will keep playing. You could look at methods like disabling the video controls so that they can't pause or covering the video with a transparent shape so that they can't click on the video or the controls to pause. 

So a video may start automatically when the slide timeline starts, but they're not necessarily always in sync depending on your set up and options enabled.

If you've run into something that you'd like help on, feel free to share a copy of the .story file here with us so that we can take a look! 

Sam problem here..

I have a button that must show up and pause timeline at a certain point of the video, (1 min, the video lasts 4 minutes) when a character is talking. The problem is that sometimes it show up 2 or 3 seconds before or after the time i have decided.

Have you find a solution?

If you absolutely MUST have the video pause at a certain time, you cannot depend on the delivery system (LMS, Network, user's computer). Changes in any of those can throw off the timing. You are always at the mercy of buffering vagrancies, and they are unpredictable and out of our control.

Break your video into a one minute portion, and a three minute portion and do your pause when the first portion ends.

You're right, i can do that but i have a loooooot of modules with a lot of video. I have to spent a lot of work hours to do that. 

Hi,
 

I have same issue as  Danny.

I have a video on the second slide of my course. There is an intro slide as well. Once a user clicks on the start button, it should go to the second slide where my video is.  It is a 30MB video. 

My problem here is when I publish my course as Web and uploading it into my webserver and upload it into rise360, the video is being got stuck but the timeline continues while the video is buffering.

Is there any way to solve this issue? Please help me with this 

Hello JayaShree!

There is actually an easier, more effective approach to adding a Storyline course in Rise 360! 

Here's what I recommend:

1. First, publish your Storyline course to Review 360.
2. Then, in Rise 360, edit an existing lesson or create a new one.
3. Insert an interactive Storyline block.
4. Click the Browse Articulate 360 button in the Storyline block.
5. Select the Storyline course you want to use from your Articulate 360 projects.

This is a more fluid way of using Storyline 360 courses in Rise 360, and should eliminate the video lagging. 

Please keep us updated if you are still seeing an inconsistency with the video!