Multiple embedded avi's and full-screen

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Confused

Soldato
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Hi all,

Am working on a support resource for work which is essentially a website (to be distributed via CD and also put on machines when we deploy our applications), and are putting a load of AVI files on for video demonstrations.

There are multiple videos per application/device, and I currently have them embedded into the page as a 400x300 window using WMP (all the machines we deploy to are Windows, vast majority are XP/IE6 with no internet access), although the videos are larger - ranging from 640x480 up to 1024x768 for screen captures.

This is all fine, but once one video on a page has been played and made full-screen (by double-clicking), no further videos on the page can be clicked on to make full-screen. They will all play fine within the browser window, just won't go full screen!

Any thoughts/suggestions, or has anyone come across this before!?


Thanks in advance,

Garry
 
I've just done almost exactly what you're after for some digital signage software.

We had 5 videos on the screen:

3 x 428 x 240 video running down the right.
1 x 1360 x 200 video running full width at the bottom
1 x 928 x 568 Video / Live TV filling the remainder

As like you, double-clicking (or dynamically) any video can be 'blown' to full screen, I originally did this by creating a new window, full screen, and having an embedded object occupying the full window.

Ran into numerous problems doing this via a webpage, so opted for a standard windows application (VB.Net)

Ran into less problems this way (but still ideally wanted a web-based solution) so took the plunge and studied Silverlight for 24hours and went back to a web-based solution.

Results were incredible, extremely fast execution (silly little test had 50 little videos, all different, running as smooth as silk) and was able to dynamically open and close windows via code on a webpage.

I think there's a lot of people overlooking Silverlight, but for us, it's been an invaluable technology that got the results we wanted with very little learning and in an environment I was familiar with.

Only downside is I believe the .Net framework 3.5 has to be present to playback Silverlight executables.
 
The videos aren't to be played simultaneously, but all videos on one page may need to be played at full screen within the same session.

Anything that doesn't involve a vanilla Windows XP installation (ie Flash, Silverlight etc) is going to be a no-no - there is no guarantees that the machines will have them, or indeed be allowed access to have them, or the internet.
 
Well I was thinking that a web-interface tested to be working on a vanilla XP/IE6 install would give the greatest chance of working on all systems! ;)

I have already done all the content/layout/videos, but have just come across this issue!
 
Yeah fair point.

OK, you say:

no further videos on the page can be clicked on to make full-screen. They will all play fine within the browser window, just won't go full screen!
Click to expand...

Is it literally that; i.e., they don't work at all, or is there some error message shown? (or some script error in the lower-left of IE)
 
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