Friday, March 16, 2007

Interactive Course player!

Good news today, we've finished developing a small additional project. It's an ASP.NET Ajax powered website that will enable the competence leaders to post online video courses on the net for the consultants, here's a list of features:

- Completely XML customizable
- Customizable themes
- Animated Text while the video is playing (like subtitles...)
- Nice & simple Ajax GUI!



I have to say I'm pretty exicted about the result, I like it alot :D

I have to say we've had a bit of trouble updating the playtime of the video with the text, the final solution is a mixture of iframe,ajax,javascript and a good old Session variable. The text also fades out and in when it changes, cool :) For anyone who's interested, we based our mediaplayer code on this article, we had to recompile the DLL and make some code modifications first to optimize things. There was also an error in the code so that the height of the videoplayer wasn't set, luckily we managed to fix this to!

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