[Laszlo-dev] showing first frame of video (API feedback request)

[Sarah Allen]

cross-posting since I think folks on this list don't always read the  
forums...

Hi folks,

I was going to use the (sadly undocumented) videoplayer component in  
an app I'm building and noticed that it doesn't display the first  
frame of the video which is the behavior I was looking for.  
Furthermore, I noticed that that wasn't really enabled by the  
mediastream API.

I've made a change (on my local code) so that stream.seek(0) will  
display the first frame of an http stream if it isn't playing, which  
is what I expected it to do. I was thinking of also adding a flag to  
videoview and videoplayer to do the same thing. So you could say  
something like:

<videoplayer
url="http://www.mediacollege.com/video-gallery/testclips/20051210-w50s.flv 
"
showfirstframe="true"
width="320" height="240"/>

or something like that. It wouldn't do anything if autoplay="true" --  
I'm not crazy about having a billion flags, but I want to enable the  
behavior.

Any feedback?

Please reply on the forum:
http://forum.openlaszlo.org/showthread.php?p=42950#post42950

Thanks,
Sarah