I want to be able to pause videos in a Captivate project.
I have a Captivate (2019 release) project in which each slide is an event video. The videos start automatically at the beginning of each slide. When the video is complete, the slide pauses and there are links to websites or documents. There is a button to move to the next slide which begins the next video. Users have complained that once a video starts playing, there’s no way to stop or pause the video. They must wait until the video is done before they can interact with the content. I used a tutorial to create a Play/Pause button with advance actions which, of course, has no affect on the videos and, since all the content is video, doesn’t work as hoped. Is there a way to enable users to Pause my project during the videos?
Event video is playing completely independent of Captivate’s control possibilities. That is the reason why there is a dedicated control panel to each video, which appears when hovering over the bottom side of the video frame. That answers your first question. It has no sense whatsoever to create a Play/Pause button, unless you use slide video instead of event video. The control panel in event video offers a possibility to pause the video. Did you miss that? Or maybe the users didn’t see that panel?
You may have use my tutorial to create a Play/Pause button? That has only effect on slide video, not on event video.
http://blog.lilybiri.com/custom-play-slash-pause-button-version-cp2019
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