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- ghandolf
Can one of you fabulous designers here tell me what's the best way to approach the construction of a website that uses a playlist to feed an imbedded video player? I need to put together a site that would show video clips of participants in an event, and also pull one of several ads that would run before the selected video clip plays, after being selected by the user. I would like it to be random as much as possible in selecting the advertising clips, (say, from a folder of ads). The best example I can find would be http://video.msn.com/v/us/v.htm?…
Ideally, the player would always be getting video that was being streamed to it live, then interrupted by the user selecting a particular clip, (preceeded by a random ad in a folder), and then returning to the live stream once the selected clip has played through, or after it has timed out.
Is this something that can be done with Shockwave, or is another software more effective in developing this kind of site? Should it all be done with scripting, incorporating RSS, or approached another way?
Any input would be most helpful and appreciated. I would hate to get halfway down the road in developing something only to find out that there is a simpler way to do it.
Thank you very much in advance for your advice and helpful input.
- fifty500
not sure if i understood correctly, but do you mean you want something to randomly choose one object out of a folder and implement it into the site?
I have a bit of code I could share which is basically a PHP include and pulls an object out of a specified folder and plops it into the site content.
An example on the front page of this site:
www.nexteradesign.com/cdg/the large image near the top and the smaller one underneath are both randomly chosen from a folder full of images.
- ghandolf0
Thank you for your reply.
Let's just say that the video player, (i.e. m/s media player) that's already imbedded in the website, is playing a live stream of video.
A user approaches, and touches the screen and makes a selection to view a video clip, stopping the live video stream, inserting a random commercial (10-15 secs), and then delivers the particular video clip.
After his/her clip runs, or times out, it returns to the live video stream it was playing before the user stopped it.
I like (and understand) how that site works that you mentioned fifty50, but I need all video, live, user selected, and random ad insertion, in a seamless interface. Just not sure of the best way to approach such a thing.
Thanks again for the imput.