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circa1978
August 5th, 2009, 06:35 PM
I decided to play with building an app for Boxee. I started with the "building your first boxee app" tutorial ( http://developer.boxee.tv/2009/04/14/building-your-first-boxee-app/ ).

Anyway, I noticed two things that I have not been able to get past and they seem to be only with Flash video, specifically YouTube videos I'm loading.

1. I can't control the video in the same way as I can in most apps (pause, volume, etc). Is there some documentation on how to enable playback controls?

2. When the video ends it just sits there an does not return to the app. Is there any documentation on how to make the player return to app when the video completes?

Sniperking
August 6th, 2009, 06:24 AM
Hi,

At the bottom of this http://developer.boxee.tv/rss-specification/ it shows javascript implementation. Which is what you want to enable pausing etc...

Not sure about exiting the video on end though.

xmcnuggetx
August 6th, 2009, 08:25 AM
the js implimentation on the developer site is outdated. you still specify the js file using the js-actions, but the actual js file looks different. Check this thread:
http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=9886