how to play and control cutscenes without the media player api

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#1

Hey there, 

i’m new to corona, but it seems that there is no way to playback a movie file with an overlayed interface that let the user skip / stop the movie. I don’t want to use the media player api, because the use of the standard videoplayer on mobile devices looks pretty ugly. I just want to overlay my video playback with my own user interface. Is there any other way to playback my video files and integreate a start/stop/cancel function? How do you manage the playback of your cutscenes? 

Greetings,

Peter 

#2

https://docs.coronalabs.com/api/library/native/newVideo.html

#3

Ah thanks, I did not know of this libary. For solving this topic i need to know, if the native libary gives me also the possibility to overlay my native video file with my own buttons / images / etc ? Its hard to figure out how to do this because the libary documentation says the exact opposite…  

#4

You aren’t able to layer anything on top of native objects like native.newVideo.

#5

So there is no way to layer my ui objects over a video playback? 

#6

No

#7

https://docs.coronalabs.com/api/library/native/newVideo.html

#8

Ah thanks, I did not know of this libary. For solving this topic i need to know, if the native libary gives me also the possibility to overlay my native video file with my own buttons / images / etc ? Its hard to figure out how to do this because the libary documentation says the exact opposite…  

#9

You aren’t able to layer anything on top of native objects like native.newVideo.

#10

So there is no way to layer my ui objects over a video playback? 

#11

No