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rfm2

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Registered: 13-Dec-2007

Venus: autoplay videos
Posted: 4 Jul 21, 22:12

Until fairly recently Venus did not have a UI option to specify autoplay for videos. When I used Venus I would have to go into the finally.bhs file and change the line that read fb += ",\n\tautoPlayVideo:false"; from "false" to "true". In the latest version the autoplay option exists, but seems to have no effect. That line in the latest version of Venus still has that "false", whereas the same line in Neptune has fb += ",\n\tautoPlayVideo:" + vidAutostart; I can still change the finally.bhs file, of course, but was the line in Venus meant to be changed to use the + vidautostart?

JeffTucker

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Registered: 31-Jan-2006

Re: Venus: autoplay videos
Posted: 4 Jul 21, 22:31

in response to: rfm2

finally.bsh (4.9 KB)

That checkbox is like the "Close Door" button in an elevator. It doesn't actually do anything - it's just there to keep you occupied.

Swap out the finally.bsh file for the attached version (your diagnosis is absolutely correct).

BTW, you're lucky the video autoplay works at all. Browsers block that these days, but the Floatbox script at the heart of Venus still manages to find a way to make it work.

rfm2

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Registered: 13-Dec-2007

Re: Venus: autoplay videos
Posted: 4 Jul 21, 22:46

in response to: JeffTucker

Thanks for the quick reply. After I wrote I went ahead and made the change to use the "+ vidAutostart;" in place of the "false", just to be sure that was the only problem. So far I have used Venus in only two albums (actually, in my view Venus is multiple closely related on-going "albums" in the same album), but in those two circumstances it has been perfect for my purpose.

JeffTucker

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Re: Venus: autoplay videos
Posted: 4 Jul 21, 23:14

in response to: rfm2

The skin is an odd little beast, suited only to a certain type of album.

I've been gradually adding things to Venus that are common to my other skins. Let me know if there's something else that you'd like to see. The "maybe" list reads, "music, maps, metadata, PDF's, slideshow, 'new' markers, YouTube."

Ultimately I'd like to roll the "grouped thumbnails" option into the other skins, like Neptune, rather than maintaining a separate skin for it, but the underlying processing code to do that is surprisingly different from the normal file iteration, so it gets very messy, very quickly.

JeffTucker

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Registered: 31-Jan-2006

Re: Venus: autoplay videos
Posted: 4 Jul 21, 23:25

in response to: rfm2

BTW, you're pretty sharp, for a mere stripling.

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