ERROR 'unknown action: playvideo' on mobile only

inframatic · March 17, 2016 at 11:20 AM

Guten Morgen,

I am receiving the error 'WARNING: unknown action: playvideo' on mobile devices only. The desktop plays the video just fine.

The weirdest part about this error is that even when I revert to previous saves where I know 'playvideo' worked, I still receive the error. In fact, this was working yesterday morning when I finished coding and it only began to not work later that night when no code was changed on my end.

the playvideo action is described here: https://krpano.com/plugins/videoplayer/#playvideo

and here is where I call it, where the error is thrown.

Note that plugin[video].play(); does work on mobile devices

Ian,

Using 1.19 pr3

inframatic · March 17, 2016 at 12:24 PM

I would even be open to finding a different method to set the video and play it.

Right now though, I'm having a small heart attack because my panos aren't working :(

Tuur · March 17, 2016 at 1:01 PM

Pm send!

playvideo should be plugin[video].playvideo...
But there is a betterway of doing these things.

Tuur

Tuur · March 17, 2016 at 2:05 PM

Consider this:

Code

<action name="startup">
	loadscene(scene_1,null,MERGE,BLEND(0.5));
</action>




		<plugin name="video" preload="true"
	        url.flash="plugins/videoplayer.swf"
	        url.html5="plugins/videoplayer.js"
		keep="true"
	        pausedonstart="false"
		autoresume="true"
	        loop="true"
	        enabled="false"
	        zorder="0"
	        align="center" ox="0" oy="0"
	        width.no-panovideosupport="100%"
	        height.no-panovideosupport="prop"
		use_as_videopano="true"
	        onloaded=""
	        onvideoready=""
		onvideocomplete=""
	        />






<action name="ChangeVideoScene" > 
	if(device.desktop,
		plugin[video].playvideo(video/%1-2k.mp4|video/%1-2k.webm);
	);	
</action>	






<scene name="scene_1" title="normalscene" onstart="plugin[video].stop();" >
	<preview type="grid(cube,16,16,512,0xCCCCCC,0x666666,0x999999);" details="16" />
	<view hlookat="0" />


	<hotspot name="htsp_1"  url="textfield.swf" distorted="true" width="60" height="60" ath="20" atv="-5"  backgroundcolor="0xffffff" onclick="loadscene(scene_2,null,MERGE, BLEND(1));" /> 	
</scene>  




<scene name="scene_2" title="videoscene" onstart="ChangeVideoScene(heli);" >
    <view hlookat="0" vlookat="0" fov="90" fovmin="70" fovmax="120" limitview="on" />
        <image>
            <sphere url="plugin:video" />
        </image>
    <hotspot name="htsp_1"  url="textfield.swf" distorted="true" width="60" height="60" ath="20" atv="-5" backgroundcolor="0xff0000" onclick="loadscene(scene_1,null,MERGE, BLEND(1));" /> 	
</scene>

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in my video folder i have the following files in this example case.
heli-2k.mp4
heli-2k.webm

of course you can extend the ChangevideoScene action for the different devices and resolutions etc..
Very convenient this way. And also easy to make multi 360 video tours or mixed content etc.. With using the moving hotspots of course

Hope it helps,

Tuur

inframatic · March 17, 2016 at 4:47 PM

You fixed the problem and optimised my code!

The actual error was immediately fixed when i added plugin[video].playvideo() instead of playvideo.
I am baffled as to how this worked for so long before but then suddenly stopped working.

Why do you set the plugin's enabled to equal false? Doesn't the plugin basically not do anything if I'm on a different scene?

The ChangeVideoScene() and startup() shortened my code by a good chunk since I was repeating this hotspot example above in a number of places.

Thanks again!

Ian Steffy

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