vh1.com video player full screen?

[najamd]

Hey Guys,
Does any one know how on earth does vh1.com allow user to full screen the flash that they are viewing without reloading the stream or playing again.

You can see what im talking about by going to
http://www.vh1.com/
then go into "Video" menu and click "Music".

Play any video and then just double click the video that is playing. The video will become full screen without playing from start or anything.
Thanks,

[najamd]

Im guessing... either its very hard to do or its very easy to do...

[jasonsplace]

First off, your footer is way larger than what is allowed in the rules. You might want to fix that before a moderator does. I went to the VH1 page that you showed and the video didn't work for me. Apparently VH1 uses there own custom plugin to do their video (which also utilizes the Flash Player as well as Windows Media Player). I know that Google Video also has a full screen button. I'm guessing that when the full screen button is clicked they launch a popup and pass to it in a variable the current location in the movie so that the full screen one can start up at the same place that the small one left off.

[najamd]

I thought i had it to the right size.. well.. its a bit annoying me past few days.. so im planning to change it in a day or 2..

As for the full screen... the vh1 video jumps to full screen without a pause or anything.. i doubt its being opened again and sent to the same position...

I’m trying to send a flash presentation remotely into full screen mode. I was thinking might get a hint or something from the vh1.com site or if some has done this before..

[jasonsplace]

Like I said, the VH1 player isn't using standard web technologies. They require you to have a plugin that most likely handles all of that stuff. With Google video I can almost guarantee that is how they do it. They launch a separate player and in one way or another they tell that 2nd player to jump to where they were at.

[najamd]

i c..
Im thinking would it be possible to have a java script that gets called by flash to full screen the flash content...

[1stbite]

Like I said, the VH1 player isn't using standard web technologies. They require you to have a plugin that most likely handles all of that stuff. With Google video I can almost guarantee that is how they do it. They launch a separate player and in one way or another they tell that 2nd player to jump to where they were at.

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the communication is done via javaScript/actionscript:

actionscript sets a variable with the current playhead position value at time the fullscreen button is clicked, its then sent out of flash to javascript, then javascript grabs the variable, launches a pop up with the video in it, then flash uses actionscript to pull in the javascript variable, then the video starts according to the variable value...

research:

1 - actionscript video playhead functions
2 - flash to javascript communication
3 - javascript to flash communication
4 - javascript pop up windows
5 - maybe also innerHTML to pull the video off the page into the pop up

[najamd]

yeah.. im thinking if the same stream of video is used in the new window then it would resume from the same point without buffering again... am i correct?

[najamd]

i went to the "Edit Signature" looking for the rules.. found nothing and then clicked on the link that jasonsplace gived only to find its a thread.. i hope they update User panel with this rule stuff.. cause no body would think rules would be in some thread god knows somewhere in this huge forum..

[jasonsplace]

i went to the "Edit Signature" looking for the rules.. found nothing and then clicked on the link that jasonsplace gived only to find its a thread.. i hope they update User panel with this rule stuff.. cause no body would think rules would be in some thread god knows somewhere in this huge forum..

The Footer Rules thread is a sticky and there is a link in most mods footer.

[drunknbass]

flash player 9 can go full screen via as.

[1stbite]

yeah.. im thinking if the same stream of video is used in the new window then it would resume from the same point without buffering again... am i correct?

in theory yes, as the file should of been cached by the browser... not sure if a part download will cache and resume if a user clicked to fullscreen before the full video is cached as I never tried or experimented with that idea.

flash player 9 can go full screen via as.

Nice

Something to consider...

but F9 has only 45% market coverage, you will need to rely on forcing users to update there player before viewing any video content with a resize option.

[najamd]

flash player 9 can go full screen via as.

Does anyone know of a way for me to call a java function and make the flash full screen just like it is supported in flash player 9. I still need to full the screen the flash content without reloading stuff and im not going anywhere with this stuff. Im using flash 2004...

[najamd]

Something like this >>>> http://board.flashkit.com/board/show...1&postcount=12 just without loading the content in a new window but fullscreening itself..