Replay Button on the Seekbar

Hi Ashley,

My apologies for a delayed reply. I was tied up completing the project. Thank you for your response to my garbled 'rant'.

Project background: to train employees in product evaluation using video demonstration. There is no right or wrong answer to their scores and they are able to go back and forwards to change scores. Html5 requirement across both iPad and PC (internet Explorer). It is not being used within an LMS. I tested on Windows7 IE11, and iPad2 iOS8. Using SL2.

I was displaying video ( approx. 100 of them) in two different ways: 1) short clips which also had text and a scoring system on the same page and needed to be Saved State to be able to go back and review or change the scores. I used the video control bar for these because the slide seekbar does not replay under those conditions, and also did not use the quiz slides but designed my own, and 2) longer videos with embedded voiceover with a lot of text coming in at different points, so needed to always sync with the text. I used the slide seekbar for these.

The video controls were mostly fine on IE (see below) and also using the amp. However the client did not want to use the amp because they wanted browser access for various reasons. I only belatedly tested on Safari (the 2.5 GB project took over 2 hours for me to upload to my server, so I did not do that as often as I should have).  With Safari/html5 the video controls/ scrollbar would fleetingly appear at the bottom of the video, but then disappear. They would then reappear at the end but be totally inactive. I was not able to pause, restart or replay the videos. I could not use the slide seekbar because of the Saved State not allowing replay. I worked round it by inserting my own stop/start buttons.

On IE the pause/play/replay worked fine, but the scrollbar did not provide an accurate enough control to jump to specific points in the video, which my clients wanted. The video scrollbar was quite erratic as a means of control and my client was very disatisfied with this, coupled with the video controls not working at all on Safari.

Unfortunately I can't share the project with you for confidentiality reasons. I am also now away from my office for a while with no access to decent internet (I've gone in to hiding, ha ha!)

Basically what is needed is for the video control scrollbar to allow better scrolling control, and also for it to actually work with html5/Safari.

I would like to say a big thank you to all staff, heroes and members for their most helpful comments over the last few months on my first SL project!