play multiple video clips with one click

[willikr]

Here's what I'm doing and what I'm tryong to do.

I have been producing Mpeg1 video clips up to an hour long using a VCD recorder, I then copy that clip to my computer's storage drive [Second HDD] and rename it with an MPG extension. First, I tried using the PLAY multimedia command but not everyone's computer is set up with proper associations. So then I got an Idea. I put a copy of mplayer2.exe and the assiciated files in the CDrom folder and used the EXECUTE program so that it looks like this

%SrcDrv%\mplayer\mplayer2.exe
%SrcDrv%\MPEGAV\smavideo.mpg

That works, but I want to be able to launch multiple mpg clips seamlessly. but when I put multpile commands on the action.onclick pane, it opens the first clip, then interupts it immediately and open clip2... thus defeating the purpose.

HELP!!!

[Corey]

No sweat, just attach a MEDIA PLAYER OBJECT > PLAY action to the OnStreamEnd event of each clip to start the next clip...

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software

[willikr]

I actually have ver 3.0 and I am not sure what you are talking about... I am a bit of a novice. For instance... Where do I find the "OnStreamEnd event dialog? Also.. Are you aware that I am executing windows media player and not an embedded video clip.

[eric_darling]

You have to upgrade to v. 4. There is no Media Player object in version 3.

[Lorne]

IIRC, isn't there a "wait for program to finish" option that you can set in the Execute command?

If so...try setting that to make the second Execute wait for the first Execute to finish.

[Corey]

Oops, my bad...

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software

[willikr]

there is a "wait for return" but it want's you to re-click the action button. I want it to be seemless.

[Lorne]

Why would you have to re-click anything? Put the two commands one-after-the-other, tell the first one to "wait for return" so the second one won't happen until the first one is finished.

I'm afraid I don't remember many details about 3.0 so forgive me if I'm missing something obvious.