Videos and Seek

My solution is to use the player seekbar instead of the video seekbar.

Everytime I start or end a video, I start or end the slide. That way the slide timeline is the same as the video timeline, and one seekbar (the player's) can control them both. It keeps my video and any actions or animations together.

Hey Ashley,

Thanks for sharing your files and allowing me to take a look.

Since it seems that you like the way the Seek with Layers works, that's the file I focused on.

I did notice that if you went back in the video, then the layers would pop back up and I can see where that could be confusing for your learners.

I added 3 variables for the questions to indicate when they were 'done', so that if the user scrolled back in the video they wouldn't pop back up to confuse them.

Let me know if this is closer to what you are looking for.

Your updated file is attached.

I have a similar problem, the player seekbar get out of sync any time the video stops (network slow, clicking on the video to pause, clicking pause on video player, ..)

Also, when you click on the video seekbar, the player seekbar also get out of sync.

It seems that player seekbar is not working at all when the video sudendly change it's sequence.

To reproduce this problem, you only needs to add any .mp4 to any slide, and add the video controls option "Below Video".

Hi Activica!

Thanks for reaching out about this. I recorded a quick Peek to show you what I'm seeing when I test this scenario. 

Does that match what you're seeing? If you could also send me a screen recording (or a Peek if you have Articulate 360!) that would be even better. Thanks!

Hi Alyssa!

Thanks for the information.

I still don't understand why you say that the video timeline and the player timeline are different, because when I click on the player seekbar the video perfectly sync with the player timelines.

Also, if I remove the video seekbar, I can control the video timeline with the player seekbar, right?

Thanks! 

Hi Activica,

Sorry for the confusion! You are correct that the player seekbar will control the video on the slide. For example, if you click the player seekbar to skip ahead in the timeline, the video will also skip ahead.

However, the same is not true for the video control bar. If you skip ahead on the video control bar, the player seekbar will not skip ahead.

It sounds like you want to keep the video in sync with the player seekbar. In that case, I would recommend removing the video control bar altogether, so the learner can control the video using the player seekbar only.

Let me know if that helps!