Play One Movie On Top of Another?

[Sivakatirswami]

A sample is up on Rev Online:

Go to "Education" or user space "Sivakatirswami" and check out "Two Movies"

This stack loads two.SMIL files into two player objects , from our 
server in San Francisco, which then stream two movies, one underneath 
and the other on top.

I would be really interested in testers.
It's working on OSX. Does it work on Windows?

Sivakatirswami


Sivakatirswami wrote:
> OK yes! this works:
>
> 1) create stack window: set background to black
> 2) create player object in center of stack window, set player to no 
> control...call it "bgMovie" "Background Movie
> 3) Create substack "topMovie" with smaller "player1", position stack 
> on top of main stack, over the background  movie.
> 4) set decorations for stack "topMovie" to none  and shrink stack 
> window to fit exactly under the rect of player 1.
>
> Then off to the side of the bg movie on the mainstack card put this 
> button:
>
> on mouseUp
>
>  start player "bgMovie"
> palette  "topMovie"
>   start player "Player1" of stack "topMovie"
>
> end mouseUp
>
> OK,  works  beautifully.  background movie is  running underneath, 
> top  movie is  playing, audio tracks from both  are coming thru.
>
> note,  its important to make sure you "palette" the topmovie stack. It 
> behaves the same as a palette, even though decorations are off, which 
> means if the user clicks on the  background  card of the mainstack, 
> the topMovie stack sticks on the top layer of the video card.. if you
> "topLevel "topMovie"  then when you click on the main stack, the 
> topMovie drops  out to the back. "disappears" from the user though 
> it's sound track is still running of course... its there, just 
> underneath the mainstack.
>
> OK, this has lots of possibilities!  (smile)  Now, if I can figure out 
> how to mask the top movie so that is is not just an ugly square rect, 
> this actually may begin to look professional...and if  we can stream 
> the two movies over the net simultaneously... :-)
>
> I think I should post a stack to RevOnline and  get some tests done on 
> Windows..
>
> so next question would be, how to mask a movie so  it  has rounded 
> corners, radius, say 12 pixels, with gaussian blur, feathered edges 
> from full opacity on the inside to transparent on the outer edges...
>
> Sivakatirswami
>
>
> Brian Yennie wrote:
>> A couple of suggestions, although I can't confirm how far they will 
>> take you:
>>
>> 1) set the alwaysBuffer of the movies to TRUE -- this is generally 
>> required for layering movies with any object(s)
>> 2) If you can't get everything running in one window, perhaps you 
>> could consider using multiple windows, with one floating borderless 
>> on top of the other
>>
>> HTH,
>> Brian
>>
>>> Another one of my "ask for the moon" queries:
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