Realplayer Embedded into an HTML Page but can't get clips to shuffle :-(
Hi
I've embedded a Realplayer into an HTML Page to play some clips from my website. It all works fine, except I can't get the clips to "shuffle" - they play in the same order each time
I've tried the Real Forum and even Google answers to no avail and I'd really this Forum's collective wisdom to help me resolve what is a longstanding and very frustrating problem.
Cheers
AS
JeevesBond posted this at 20:21 — 3rd January 2006.
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What did the people on the Real Forum say? I have a feeling you just can't do it mate.
Can RealPlayer be manipulated via JavaScript at all? Maybe you could use that to load different URLs into the your player?
That was a shot in the dark by the way.
After a rummage on Google:
Found the URL http://service.real.com/help/library/guides/realone/ScriptingGuide/HTML/realscript.htm
Now I'm sure that with a little scripting you'll be able to do what you want. Bear in mind that none of this (including that URL I just gave you funnily enough) will work in Opera/Linux (don't know about Windows, perhaps someone would be kind enough to test that for you). It doesn't support scripting with plugins (not unreasonable actually).
There are two ways of scripting this:
The second option would be best as you're not reloading the RealPlayer object every time you change clip, also you'll need the RealPlayer clip to do what's known as a 'callback' when a clip has finished playing. That'll let your little application know it's time to play the next clip.
I'd like to check that and find out some more but Real.com wont let me into their developers area. Hope this points you in the right direction though, have fun!
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Andrew_Samuel posted this at 22:15 — 3rd January 2006.
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Real People suggested I post the query to helixcommunity.org which I did only to get a grand total of no replies
JeevesBond posted this at 21:58 — 4th January 2006.
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Where did you post on there? Had a quick look at the message boards but couldn't see a post from you...
Have you tried what I suggested, or are you completely stuck?
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Andrew_Samuel posted this at 22:36 — 4th January 2006.
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JB
I posted here
https://helixcommunity.org/forum/forum.php?thread_id=2113&forum_id=23
Re: your JS suggestions way over my head I'm afraid
JeevesBond posted this at 13:22 — 5th January 2006.
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Aha, well that guy was advising you join a mailing list to get your question answered, if you go to:
https://community.helixcommunity.org/2005/mailinglists
scroll down to:
Get Involved -> player-dev
then click "Subscribe to this list" on the right
It'll take you to a log in screen, assuming you created an account you should be able to view and post to the mailing list. I haven't got an account so don't know what's available, does this help at all? Can you ask you question in there?
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Andrew_Samuel posted this at 23:33 — 5th January 2006.
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Cheers I'll give it a go.
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