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Hi,
I'm trying to display a video into the image of a old rounded screen TV.
I thought this would be easy to do but after many trials, the video still dispays in the foreground ("above", instead of "behind" the TV screen).
Any suggestion very welcome !

Hi Bruno1,

welcome to the forum!

Hm, good question, in earlier version one could check "alwaysbuffer" for the player object,
but I just made a little test, this does not work anymore, the video still "floats" above everything.
Sorry, no brilliant idea in the moment...


Best

Klaus

Hi Klaus,

Thanks anyway for trying.
I thought one of the "ink" proprieties would do the job, but I didn't succeed...

Best,
Bruno1

Thanks to Klaus (you were right : the Buffer option had to be checked !), I finally found something that works fine :

- media : movie, TV (png), button to play the movie.

- Step 1 : Group movie + TV image :
Object > Group Selected

- Step 2 : Tools > Project Browser > Card id # > Group id # > Property Inspector > Ink : blendSrcOver

- Step 3 : TV > Ink : blendSrc

- Step 4 : Button
on mouseup
start player "(movie)"
end mouseup

That's all !
Hope this will help some other users...

Cool, thanks for sharing!

INKS! Go figure!

Gee! I really do hope you've cracked this! I have been trying to work out how to get something to sit on top of a video for a while. If it's a group situation, I'd be interested to know!
Are you able to post a stack, even if the media isn't included (I can change code to reference other things on my HD)?
XdM

Hi Xero,

Unfortunately, I'm not allowed to post any media on this forum.
If you can, upload a non working stack and I'll try to tell you what is missing.

If you follow the instructions I gave in my last post (checking the "buffer" option), everything should be working fine though.

Bruno1

Hi Bruno1,

you need to have at least seven postings before you can post links, attachments etc.


Best

Klaus