[Laszlo-user] Branching DHTML versus Flash SWF for video streaming

[John Sundman]

Hello Mark,

The <switch> tag may be of interest.

See here for an introduction:

http://labs.openlaszlo.org/trunk-nightly/docs/developers/program- 
structure.html#d0e30697

Regards,

jrs

On Sep 24, 2007, at 9:48 AM, Mark Bobsin wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> This is my first post here as am new to OpenLaszlo.
>
> I am working on a video streaming platform and in past Alpha  
> "development" release was using SMIL 2.0 with RealPlayer.  This  
> actually worked quite well but wanted more out of it and began  
> looking at SWF + Flash Video.
>
> I know Flash is much more popular and greater PC deployment, but  
> basically want to support both ways for a couple of reasons:
> 1) partner affiliates/support (i.e. not sure but down the road  
> could work with Real Networks)
> 2) current issues in Flash Player due to synch of multiple streams  
> (video with multiple audio languages)
>
> ,... so thinking of using OpenLaszlo for SWF + FLV as well as DHTML  
> + SMIL.  The former can all be run via Flash Player whereas the  
> latter of course would launch Real Player or use embedded in  
> webpage and have to do video streaming in separate part of webpage  
> or within Real Player's HTML Pane.  This way I can have my logon,  
> user profile, setup pages and other portal aspects (searching for  
> and listing available VOD movies), etc. in OpenLaszlo regardless of  
> SWF or DHTML execution.
>
> This is the background and now on to my question:
>
> In respect to above, can I have differing program code logic  
> execution (i.e. branching) based upon whether an OpenLaszlo app is  
> running in DHTML versus SWF mode?  Is there a way to tell?  I would  
> like to keep all SWF + FLV processing within same OpenLaszlo app as  
> portal.  Otherwise, maybe better to spawn separate process or  
> another OpenLaszlo or Flash SWF app?
>
>
> Thank you and kindest regards,
> Mark Bobsin