Linked Content, Scheduling & Long Pauses

Thursday, 07/12/2007 -- by William Schwartz. Subject: Linked Content, Scheduling & Long Pauses

Hi,

We have a script that contains many "Linked Content" references (15 or more). Each Linked Content reference points to an individual script that contains three basic elements: a command to turn down the computer's line-in volume, a page with a movie clip, then a command to turn up the computer's line-in volume (once the movie is complete).

The problem that we are experiencing is that out of the fifteen (roughly) screens, ten of them are scheduled to be played in the future (ex: next month). This seems to create a "pause" in the script while the Player is going through these files even though they are NOT scheduled to play (doesn't fall within schedule window). To confirm this, I removed the Linked Content references in the script for the upcoming (future) screens and the pause was dramatically reduced.

My questions are:

1. Why is this pause there to begin with?
2. Is there a built in mechanism for scheduling Linked Content (before the Player has to "read" the Linked Content script).
3. Is there another alternative that will reduce the pause without removing the references?

Any help would be appreciated,

William Schwartz

Thursday, 07/12/2007 -- by Randy McWilson. Subject:

Is your scedule function checked before or in the slides where the linked refs are? You could possibly setup a "skip" function by using date as a variable and then using a goto function to skip the slide with the future links. Just a thought.

Friday, 07/13/2007 -- by William Schwartz. Subject:

The scheduling is soley within the sca file referred to by the Linked Content.

I've thought of scripting the solution, but I wanted to investigate other "built-in" methods first.

Currently, the reference to the Linked Content looks like this.

Ex:

{
Sequence:
Script("File.sca");
}

I wonder if a "Group" was present with the scheduling, followed by the link within the group, if that would prevent the call (when outside of the date range).

Ex:

{
Group:
Schedule(StartDate("8/1/2007"), EndDate("8/31/2007"));
Sequence:
Script("File.sca");
}

Monday, 07/16/2007 -- by Scala Technical Support. Subject: Email script.

William,

Is this InfoChannel 5 or InfoChannel 3? What Release?

Please email a copy of you script .sca file to bob.albright@scala.com.

Regards,

Scala Technical Support

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