I recently wrote about detecting mouse direction to control my SpaceBalls game. The technique was rubbish for controlling space ships, but turns out to be a nice method for jogging through video.
Here's an example of a rough and ready bitmap sequence video player that's driven by mouse gestures:
Mouse Gesture Video Player
Here's an example of a rough and ready bitmap sequence video player that's driven by mouse gestures:
Mouse Gesture Video Player
Hold the mouse down and rotate clockwise or anti-clockwise to forward or rewind the video - just like using the jog dial on a video machine.
This works better in Firefox that IE - the reason being that under Firefox, the image control successfully fires an HTTP Status Event, so the progress bar gives you an idea of how many frames are loaded.
Either way, you'll need to be patient, there's 23MB of still frames being loaded!
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