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Beyond's avatar
Beyond
Reel Rookie
3 years ago

Pass URL as a parameter to Video node

Hello,

I am able to pass URL as a parameter to roVideoScreen following this blog post:
https://blog.roku.com/developer/2011/10/06/using-launch-parameters

Unfortunately roVideoScreen is deprecated and my channel will be rejected during certification if I use it.

Now I am trying to pass URL as a parameter to Video node using this example:
https://github.com/rokudev/samples/tree/master/media/VideoExample

I tried to use m.global to access Video node from Main function but it was unsuccessful.
Any help how to achieve this will be highly appreciated.

Thanks!

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  • renojim's avatar
    renojim
    Community Streaming Expert
    3 years ago

    You want to access the video node through the scene variable.  Following that example, it would be something like this:

    screen = CreateObject("roSGScreen")
m.port = CreateObject("roMessagePort")
screen.setMessagePort(m.port)
scene = screen.CreateScene("VideoExample")
screen.show()
video_node = scene.FindNode("exampleVideo")
videocontent = createObject("RoSGNode", "ContentNode")
videocontent.title = "Example Video"
videocontent.streamformat = "mp4"
videocontent.url = "https://roku-webdev-opus.s3.amazonaws.com/public-videos/big+stream+trimmed.mp4"
video_node.content = videocontent
video_node.setFocus(true)
video_node.control = "play"