I'm trying to time video "Transitions" and am running into intermittent issues.

http://vtour.govtour.com/vtour_preview.php?tid=3707#

If you go to the link above and click any of the hotspots with triangles you can observe what I'm trying to do.

When clicking on a "Transition" hotspot and going to a new scene the following should occur:

Trace - Total Time ( Total time of the Transition ).
Trace - Time to fire ( 3 seconds less than Total time ).
Trace - "Load Scene NOW" ( this should fire 3 seconds prior to the end of the transition ).

However, sometimes the Trace - "Load Scene NOW", fires immediately with the first two Trace events. Meaning the scene is loaded immediately and not 3 seconds prior to the end of the transition - The loop ends prematurely.

I can't tell if a variable is somehow holding onto a value or what.
Anyone care to take a gander?

I call the action cascade with…….

gotrans($media,$actscene,$dest_h,$dest_v);

Here are the relevant code blocks:

<plugin name="trans"
url="%SWFPATH%/player/plugins/videoplayer.swf"
visible="false" enabled="true"
keep="true"
zorder="0"
align="lefttop" x="0" y="0"
width="100%"
height="100%"
alpha="0.0"
refreshrate="auto"
buffertime="0.1"
iscomplete="false"
isvideoready="true"
loop="false"
onvideoready=""
onvideocomplete="tween(plugin[trans].alpha,0.0,2,default,set(plugin[trans].visible,false)); closevideo();"
pausedonstart="false"
updateeveryframe="true"
volume="1"
/>

<action name="gettranstime">
showlog(true);
set(mytime, 0);
set(mytime,get(plugin[trans].totaltime));
trace('Total time=',get(mytime));
sub(mytime, 3);
trace('Time to fire=',get(mytime));
set(transtime, 0);
set(transtime,get(plugin[trans].time));
loop(mytime GE transtime,
set(transtime,get(plugin[trans].time));
wait(0);
);
trace('Load Scene NOW');
loadscene(%1,view.hlookat=%2&view.vlookat=%3,MERGE,BLEND(2));
js(setPrevScene(%1));
set(mytime, 0);
set(transtime, 0);
</action>

<action name="gotrans">
set(plugin[trans].onvideoready,gettranstime(%2,%3,%4));
set(hotspot.enabled,false);
plugin[trans].playvideo(%SWFPATH%/player/media/%1.mp4);
set(plugin[trans].visible,true);
tween(plugin[trans].alpha,1);
</action>

Klaus,

Thanks for the reply!

By the way, your engine helped us win an award lat year...... VTour Best Virtual-Reality Innovation.
http://adage.com/article/special-report-…natives/230922/


Getting closer, but I think I've found the issue, but I just don't know how to resolve it.

Apparently the statement:

set(transtime,get(plugin[trans].time));


...is holding onto, or getting bad information.
The first time the action cascade is fired all goes as planned.
But on subsequent cascades when the current time of a transition is "got" some number, greater than the number needed for the loop to end is "got" and thus "LOAD PANO NOW" is fired right away.

Is there a way to clear this info?
Someway to "empty" the plugin of all info from the previous "play"?

Here is an appended output to illustrate what is going on.
I had to trace the heck out of things to expose this.....



INFO: krpano 1.0.8.14 (build 2011-12-20)
INFO: Flashplayer MAC 11.1.102.55 PlugIn
INFO: registered to: VTour LLC
INFO: start mytime =mytime
INFO: start transtime =transtime
INFO: Init mytime =0
INFO: totaltime=7.566666666666666
INFO: totaltime - 3 =4.566666666666666
INFO: Init transtime =0
INFO: Original Current time =0
INFO: Current time =0
INFO: Current time =0.067
INFO: Current time =0.1
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

INFO: Current time =4.467
INFO: Current time =4.467
INFO: Current time =4.5
INFO: Current time =4.533
INFO: Current time =4.567
INFO: Load Scene NOW ****** End of first loop/action cascade
INFO: start mytime =4.566666666666666
INFO: start transtime =4.567
INFO: Init mytime =0
INFO: totaltime=9
INFO: totaltime - 3 =6
INFO: Init transtime =0
INFO: Original Current time =7.533 ***** This should be zero, since we are playing a new transition from the beginning.
INFO: Current time =7.533 ***** This should also be zero, since we are playing a new transition from the beginning.
INFO: Load Scene NOW ***** Being fired right away - no loop
INFO: start mytime =6
INFO: start transtime =7.533
INFO: Init mytime =0
INFO: totaltime=6.4
INFO: totaltime - 3 =3.4000000000000004
INFO: Init transtime =0
INFO: Original Current time =8.967 ***** This should be zero, since we are playing a new transition from the beginning.
INFO: Current time =8.967 ***** This should also be zero, since we are playing a new transition from the beginning.
INFO: Load Scene NOW ***** Being fired right away - no loop

Nothing too secret here.
Other than the back-end composer I have created for putting our tours together.
Pretty darn robust, and complicated ! The whole player ( desktop, pad-device, facebook app) / composer "package" is over 28,000 lines of code......

However, if you have specific questions I'd be more than happy to reply.