Video Used in Layout Slides Gets Duplicated (Per Page) on Publish?

Aug 26, 2016

Hello Storyline Community!

Hopefully that subject line is self-explanatory.  I'm using video on layout slides, and have been surprised that the "story_content" folder sees it necessary to publish an instance of the video for each use of the layout slide (the files are identical, save for an incrementing suffix number).  This bloats the course file size significantly, especially if I have a fifty-page scene.  I can't think of a reason why all media assets in layout slides couldn't point to the same published resource...

Has anyone observed this before?  Is there any workaround?

Thanks!

David

4 Replies
David Meslin

Leslie,

I'm using Storyline 2, Update 10: 1607.1221.

I was contemplating decompiling the SWFs to change the reference to the
first video, and then deleting the duplicates, but this seemed risky.

We have a large (130+ pages) course, and we wanted to use a small
background texture video on a master slide. This bug makes the file size
of the published course prohibitive.

Thanks,
David

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