request: event on end behaivor

[Philip Dixon]

At the moment it's not possible to end a slide after the video widget is ended. Is it possible to add an event so that when the end is reached we can hook the event and end the slide?

[jabdoa]

Afaik this is on Quinn's roadmap for the new video player. Dunno if it is already available in dev.

Jan

[Quinn Capen]

I added this feature to mpf 0.33.29 and mpf_mc 0.33.8 (you must update both).  You will Video assets now have the following new settings:

events_when_played

events_when_stopped

Both are lists of events that will be posted when the video is played or stopped.  This mirrors the settings in the sounds. Let me know if you have any problems with the feature.

Quinn

[Philip Dixon]

excellent. Incidentally, as you have added these as events I can use them to duck the music whilst the video plays. Win!

[Philip Dixon]

Hi Quinn, it's failing the validator:

AssertionError: Your config contains a value for the setting "widgets:video:widgets:video:events_when_stopped", but this is not a valid setting name.

unless I have a typo or misunderstood how it works, here's a typical definition:

skillshot_vid_3:

    widgets:

    - type: video

      video: vid3

      events_when_stopped: remove_slide_skillshot_vid_3

      control_events:

      - event: pre_show_slide

        action: seek

        value: 0.00

      - event: pre_show_slide

        action: play

      z: 1

[Quinn Capen]

It currently only works when specified in the video assets section of the config, not in the widget or slide player.  I won't have time until the weekend to extend it to the players.

Quinn

[Philip Dixon]

Aah i see. That might work for what I'm doing. The problem would come if a video is on more than one slide as you wouldn't know which slidw to remove.
Is the plan to extend this to the slide definition as i have it?
I'm away at a pinball meet for the weekend so i won't be working on this anyway.

[Quinn Capen]

I'm afraid it is too much work to extend this behavior to the widget_player and slide_player for 0.33 as the work would just be thrown away when these are rewritten for 0.50.  This feature will be available in the slide and widget players in 0.50.  

In the meantime, I suggest if you have the need to use a video in more than one slide, make a copy of the video with a different name and treat them as separate video assets.  While it is a waste of disk space, videos are not loaded in memory (they are streamed from disk) so your other system resources should not be negatively impacted.

Quinn

[Philip Dixon]

As I say, it's great for what I'm doing. I just wanted to point out a potential pitfall so you don't waste time doing this in 0.50