Play video inside application

bravcm

Hi to all,

is there any possibility to embedd/play short .swf, .mp4 video files? Convert .swf to series of PNG or what? Any possibility?

Thanks!

Matjaž

bravcm

Nobody have experiences with use of .swf files inside Gideros?

ar2rsawseen

Usually the software you use to create swf, like Adobe Flash, can export it also as png sequence, which can be used in MovieClip object
for swf most probably there won't be any other way, as far as I know flash is not commonly supported on mobile.

About mp4 movie, I just posted a Native UI lib with VideoView in it, but it is available to upgraded members only

gianmichele

Or have a look at Gideros Wax

http://www.giderosmobile.com/forum/discussion/1719/using-wax-for-easy-access-to-objective-c-under-ios-gideros#Item_78

ar2rsawseen

Oh yes true, sometimes I take bhWax for granted.
And the Native UI posted in the labs is Android only currently.

bowerandy

@bravcm, I've just released an new iOS game (Word Association Football, http://wafga.me) that includes video playing. It is used to go through the tutorial lessons. In the following screenshot:



The video is playing within the iPhone frame. As you can see, it can be accurately positioned and rotated. This is all done with the magic of Hot Wax (BhWax).

best regards

OZApps

The developer that worked on the Gideros Illustrator (SVG parsing library for Gideros) has a great set of libraries to work with vector graphics. There is the SWF to Obj-C code mac app, now if someone was to use the tech behind the two and combine them, you would have SWF animation (no AS3 scripting support) for Gideros.

edriavw

@bowerandy I have been following your amazing tutorial to play youtube video with BhWax, but i couldn't find out how to play video from my videos asset folder. I think i made a mistake with the file path. How to play video from local asset folder?
Thanks in advance

OZApps

#edriavw, you can also try the media plug-in (not sure if it is available to all, or just subscribers) it has the ability to play video on both iOS and Android apart from accessing the Camera, the Photos Folder and a couple of more things.

bowerandy

@edriavw,

W.A.F. plays video using an MPMoviePlayerController. Here's the code to create it:

function Tutorial:createVideoScreen(filename, width, height) local fullPath=getPathForFile(filename) local url=NSURL:fileURLWithPath(fullPath) self.moviePlayerController=MPMoviePlayerController:initWithContentURL(url) self.moviePlayerController:setControlStyle(MPMovieControlStyleNone) self.moviePlayerController:setAllowsAirPlay(false)   local movieView=self.moviePlayerController:view() movieViewFrame=BhUIViewFrame.new(movieView, CGRect(0, 0, width, height)) return movieViewFrame end   function Tutorial:init() .... .... local movieFrameView=self:createVideoScreen("|R|Tutorial/ReadyToPlay1.mov", width, height) movieFrameView:resetAnchorPoint(0.5) movieFrameView:setRotation(-9) movieFrameView:setPosition(cx, cy) self.movieFrameView=movieFrameView end   .... ....   self.moviePlayerController:setRepeatMode(1) self.moviePlayerController:play()

Best regards