Playing avi backwards

[WilcoFiers webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Hi,

I have an avi file which i need twice, once normal, and once it has to play backwards. At the end of the animation it has to go to a marker. i used this code: global startfilm
on prepareframe me
if startfilm = 0 then
set the movietime of sprite 1 = 1
set the movierate of sprite 1 = -1
set startfilm = 1
end if
end


on exitFrame me
if the movierate of sprite 1 = 0 then
set startfilm = 0
go to "hoofdmenu"
else
go to the frame
end if
endQ]It doesn't work.... can anyone please help?

[JB]

I sugest having the foward play and reverse play on 2 different markers,
having the foward play marker loop until the movie reaches the end, then
play score to reverse play marker


--- here's some code for reverse play


on prepareframe me
global startfilm
if startfilm <> 1 then -- undefined also means start
set the movietime of sprite 1 = sprite(1).member.duration -- move to
end
set the movierate of sprite 1 = -1 --- play reverse
set startfilm = 1
end if
end


on exitFrame -- wait for play to start (hope it reaches 0)
if sprite(1).member.movietime > 0 then go to the frame
end


you cold use an on beginSprite handler to trigger the movie, this one
time script would eliminate the need for startfilm variable

[WilcoFiers webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Thanks alot, but i'm having a problem with this script; as soon as the movie starts playing, for a very short time it opens a new window in the top-left corner with the first frame of the movie in it, then it closes again, and then it plays the movie backwards like it's suppose to. It doesn't do this open-new-window-thingy when i run it without this script. What causes this to happend and can i fix it?

[Mark A. Boyd]

On 03 Dec 2003, "WilcoFiers" [email]webforumsuser@macromedia.com[/email] wrote:

> Thanks alot, but i'm having a problem with this script; as soon as the
> movie starts playing, for a very short time it opens a new window in
> the top-left corner with the first frame of the movie in it, then it
> closes again, and then it plays the movie backwards like it's suppose
> to. It doesn't do this open-new-window-thingy when i run it without
> this script. What causes this to happend and can i fix it?

I seem to recall seeing something like this (the window opening was
actually the Windows Media Player) when attempting to set a video sprite's
movieTime or movieRate in a beginSprite event.

See if moving the script from the prepareFrame event to an enterFrame event
cures it.


--
Mark A. Boyd
Keep-On-Learnin' :)