Dynamically load video?

[jen_designs@hotmail.com]

I have a html page with an embeded video and a drop list. What I would
like to do is have the user select a video from the drop list, then
replace the embeded video on the screen. Is there a way to change the
video that is embeded in a html page?

[Martin Kurz]

Re: Dynamically load video?

jen_designs@hot mail.com schrieb:[color=blue]
> I have a html page with an embeded video and a drop list. What I would
> like to do is have the user select a video from the drop list, then
> replace the embeded video on the screen. Is there a way to change the
> video that is embeded in a html page?[/color]

For RealPlayer you can find the documents about scripting with embedded players
on realnetworks:

http://service.real.com/help/library/guides/realone/ScriptingGuide/HTML/realscript.htm

There's a method called DoGotoURL(strin g url, string target) - I don't know if
this is what you're looking for or if it's just for the use of realplayers
integrated browser...

There's another method desribed, PlayClip(url, clipinfo, related_info_ur l,
width, height, media_browser_u rl, target, bnow_playing) - sounds better.

Setting another src in the Sites sourcecode shouldn't bring you up to the
desired result - at least I assume that the player should get reloaded or at
least somehow triggered to load the new src.

About WindowsMedia or Quicktime, I don't know anything.

[Xandax]

Re: Dynamically load video?

I've not worked a lot with media on webpages but some quick testing
yielded some result with Internet Explorer, and *.wmv movies (i'd think
it would be possible with other movietypes and it shouldn't be that
difficult to transfere to cross-browser compability.... .

But anyways - If you have your movies embedded via the object tag, then
you can access the object by getElementById( ObjectID), and then set the
FileName property.
In my quick testing in IE this gave me the new movie without needing to
reload the page.

So basically:
var node = document.getEle mentById(yourOb jectID)
node.FileName = newFileName.wmv

gave me the new movie.

For FireFox, which I didn't bother working out now (gotta leave
something for yourself :)), I'd think you need to get access to the
embed tag in a somewhat similar way because I belive that is the object
used, and access the "src" property.