How to handle video in ZIM

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Hi, is there any tutorial on how to handle video by making simple video player?
Another thing I'm interested in is how to use scrollbar to jump between frames.
How is the performance of FullHD / 4k videos in ZIM?
I remember that in Flash there was a bug that if you want to loop mp4 video, there was a "blip" when last frame ended and first frame was played. So it was never truelly seamless. How is it with ZIM?

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Hi @rsx83 - video in ZIM is done with Vid() and it reads in the HTML 5 video tag into a Bitmap. So the performance will be roughly the same as HTML video except take up more processing. However, then you can manipulate it as any DisplayObject - for instance, layer it, scale, rotate, set alpha, blendmodes, etc.

There is this video from our Docs series:

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Thank you very much!

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Any problems, let us know. Cheers.

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I had converted a Flash based fancy video player and audio player using an old version of ZIM, some years ago on this page.
https://www.legend-city.com/audio_video/video.php
https://www.legend-city.com/audio_video/

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Nice - they look good.

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