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pablogott
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11 years ago

Play All using videoplayer sample

My channel is based on the video player sample.

I'd like a category to have a play all button, but I'm struggling with brightscript in general.

My understanding is roVideoscreen won't work, as that won't play a playlist.

I also can't figure out how to grab all the videos from my xml and play them as a a playlist, or how to make a special button that launches a player. Any help would be much appreciated!
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  • pablogott's avatar
    pablogott
    Visitor
    11 years ago
    Thank you so much. This is amazing.

    So this adds a play all button on an episode level page?
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    pablogott
    Visitor
    11 years ago
    2 issues, in case anyone else wants to use this.

    1) Play All is an option for the last episode, which is unnecessary as it doesn't (and probably shouldn't) loop.

    I think the trick is in here:
     
        if showlist.count() > 1 then
            screen.addbutton(3,"Play All")
        end if


    2) Once the last episode is finished, the channel needs to be restarted before anything else can be played again. I'm still looking for clues on that one.
  • dcringo's avatar
    dcringo
    Visitor
    10 years ago
    I am trying to implement this code, but I am having an issue with the "playback interrupted by user." situation.

    When I use the code as written in the example, if the playback is interrupted, I get a "type mismatch" here:

    if type(event) = "roVideoScreenEvent" then
                    if event.getmessage()= "Playback interrupted by user." then

                        return "user cancelled playback"
                     end if


    It breaks on the return. I am sort of a noob on the rules of a function returning things, so originally I rewrote my app to avoid having to do this. That resulted in, you guessed it, a recursive situation that caused a stack overflow after about 30 videos.

    If I can figure out how to handle this last item, i will have a "play all" function that actually even loops the playlist over and over.

    Any help would be appreciated