Comments on: Changing the MediaController

By: Sönke

Sönke — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 18:14:58 +0000

Don’t know if the comonents actually still exists. This post is over 6 years old.

By: venky

venky — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:39:49 +0000

iam trying to make a clickable seek bar in media controller , is it possible to make a you tube like seek bar with media controller

By: Carlos Maldonado

Carlos Maldonado — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 04:11:19 +0000

That is correct, Sönke! Maybe Flash could query our Learning Management system, which stores that variable (CD-ROM drive letter) for each user.
Thanks,
Carlos

By: Sönke

Sönke — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 08:18:33 +0000

Hello Carlos,
for this you have to know the drive-letter of the users CD-ROM or the user has to telll the MediaController.

By: Carlos Maldonado

Carlos Maldonado — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 05:18:26 +0000

The MediaController is embedded in an HTML file.
The audio file is on a CD-ROM.
The HTML site is located on the server.
When the user clicks on a link, the MediaController should ideally play either the entire mp3 file or any portion of it as specified by a start and stop time.
Hope this helps to clarify things.

By: Sönke

Sönke — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 07:16:11 +0000

I didn’t understand it completely.
You are talking about MediaController, server, browser and CD-ROM.
The MediaController is in a SWF and the SWF is embedded in a HTML-File which normally shows up in a browser. Is the HTML-Site located at the clients computer (on CD-ROM?) or on the server (yourdomain.com/htmlfilewithMediaController.html)?

By: Carlos Maldonado

Carlos Maldonado — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 04:56:13 +0000

Thanks for your reply. Yes, a MediaController would be a more precise way of calling it.
By links, I mean a typical web link that is created by the
link syntax, where cd| is the variable for the CD-ROM drive letter of the user’s machine.
Right now, I am using .rm files (RealAudio files) on a CD-ROM because the Real Player allows control the timing within the compressed .rm file by using the syntax:
file:///cd|/filename.rm?start=”00:00″&end=”00:15″. This creates a .ram metafile in the server that sends a command back to the player to play the first 15 seconds of the .rm file.
The idea, however, is to create a Flash MediaController that would launch either the entire mp3 file or any portion of it, for example, the first 15 seconds as in the .rm example above.
The comunication between the MediaController, the server, the browser, and the CD-ROM should be handled in the most efficient manner. I guess JavaScript could do the trick.
I look forward to your comments. Thanks again.

By: Sönke

Sönke — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 17:24:54 +0000

Yes that should be possible. I guess by a custom Flash Player you mean a MediaController?
An by links you mean communication between HTML and Flash via JavaScript?

By: Carlos Maldonado

Carlos Maldonado — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 17:01:30 +0000

This is a great tip, thanks for posting it. Do you know if there is there a way to build a customized Flash Player that would let the page author control the start and stop times of an mp3 audio file on a CD-ROM via HTML or XML, so that links on a web page would access from point A to point B on that file?