Another html5 video player is THEOplayer and it has a lot more features than Flowplayer. For more information you can visit http://www.theoplayer.com
It is the ONLY HTML5 video player that can guarantuee http live streaming playback, cross-platform without any plugins such as Flash or Silverlight. 

Itd, I am a very enthusiastic user of CrazyTalk. It really is an incredible program as you will find as you get used to it. And whatever work-arounds that you find for your particular problem will be both easy and worth the extra effort, because CrazyTalk is worth the extra effort because of what it can do.

However, I agree with you about Reallusion's weakness in the area of actually teaching customers how to use their products and their lack of complete tutorials. I have posted by grumblings about this elsewhere on the Forum both in regard to CrazyTalk and iClone.

Forgive me for being cruel, but I am glad that someone else has had some of the same problems as I have in learning how to use these programs. Perhaps with more such complaints Reallusion will begin to address this weakness in their marketing mix ... not thorough enough tutorials for their otherwise fantastic products.

At last...

I want to do what you have done on this page : http://www.pashabooks.com/harold.html

A character- it auto plays, no surround screen works like sitepal. Thats exactly what I need it to do!

Any more tips? This works in ie and forefox, did you have to add any extra players in?

What code are you uing on your webpage to pull it in?

Any tips would be most helpful. Thank You.

pps. The Koala has a problem with it's sound- its double playing over it's self- if you understand what I mean. Not sure if you knew:)

Hi

I download mine a wmv and gthen convert the to swf flash files, it keeps the file size down and has worked really well for me www.pashabooks.com check out the dog on the lost mountain page.

Hi,

Ok so we have established you are not confused nor are you a newbie at web site creation. Sadly I had no way of knowing that from your post so apologies if you were offended by my reply.

I also do not know what you were told by pre-sales so I'am just going by the information that is available on this web site that describe Crazytalk's features.

With regards to Sitepal I have never used it and don't know the full extent of its capabilities but from what I've read it appears to do much the same as what is available with Crazytalk. In Crazytalk you can easily get any facial image to say anything you want and then incorporate the exported movie into your web page just by cutting and pasting the code.

Apart from the Auto-start feature you mentioned what is it exactly you want to do in Crazytalk that you are unable to do? If it is adding chatbot features then yes that isn't available out of the box but everything else is there.

Crazytalk is one of the easiest programs to use I have found so I'm struggling to understand what it is you need these tutorials to show you. There are plenty of tutorials related to the advanced features such as Puppeteering and SFX so what is missing that you need? If you explain a little more I'm sure someone can help you.

Pete

                                                                

Peter
Forum Administrator

www.reallusion.com

I'm not confused.lol

I did not for one moment think this was a website builder!

I asked if this prog would perform the same functions as sitepal before purchase and was told- yes it would and could be used in the same way.

Now I have purchased- I find out that this is not the case.

I was further told- there were tutorial on how to do just this by pre sales- before purchase.
I was led to believe that this could be used as an alternative to sitepal.

I'm not confused in the slightest- I think your pre sales staff who respond to pre sales questions are, however.

I only purchased this as an alternative to sitepal because of your pre sales staff assurance that it could do the job and that tutorials were provided.

It's a bit off after purchase to find- in fact no tutorials on how to do this are provided,
The support forum tries to tell you your confusing the prog with a site maker,
That you should also scan the net to look for how to tutorials!

I was told- (just so no one thinks i'm confused)
That crazy talk was a good alternative to sitepal and would do the same thing.
Tutorials on how to achieve this were provided.

To clarify, I am a webmaster with many sites and my own hosting. I can build webpages.
I don't need 'newbie' tutorials on building webpages.

I need a program I purchase - to do what I am told it will do.
If I'm assured that tutorials on how to do what I need it to do are provided- I expect them to be.

The only thing I'm a newbie at - is using this new program I have bought.

Hi,

I can understand your frustrations but I think maybe you have misunderstood what Crazytalk is and the difference between a webpage builder and the Crazytalk program. Crazytalk enables anyone to export a video in a format ready for including in a webpage. It doesn't claim to be a webpage designer or builder and to the best of my knowledge never has, it's software that exports web ready content very simply.

There are countless programs and sites out there that will help you design web pages and many thousands of tutorials that teach you how to write HTML code and place flash videos on your web site etc. When you export from Crazytalk you have that code ready to be cut and pasted on your webpage without the need to re-write it yourself.

If you do a search on Google for example, you will certainly be able to find beginners tutorials on setting up a web page and the different sites to host it on, and once that is setup you should have no problems adding Crazytalk content to your web site.

Your comments are always welcome. I hope you persevere with Crazytalk. I think you will find it worthwhile in the end.

Pete

                                                                

Peter
Forum Administrator

www.reallusion.com

Thanks for response.

Ok will have to try all that I guess, however I only bought this two days ago and was assured that it was simple, doable and there were tutorials availiable on how to.
Support should give accurate info!

This is clearly not straight forward and is going to involve an awful lot of time, trial. tech skills and error.
Support should be better informed and provide more accurate responses before people purchase.

It may be simpler for me to get sitepal- a simple easy cut and paste answer. Had I know how 'techy' I would have to get to try to make this work as I need- I would not have purchased the prog and character packs also.

Thanks you for trying to help.

It was possible to autoplay the talking character in the CrazyTalk player. So maybe that is why you got the reply that it was still possible. It is not completeley wrong either though, because both the WMV and RM exports will autoplay as standard. The advantage of the FLV export is that Flash might be more popular and might therefore be already installed on a higher percentage of your visitors' machines by default.

Perhaps it is possible to autoplay in the FLV player CrazyTalk exports as well, eg. by adding a parameter to the script. Sadly it is not documented by Reallusion. And even after browsing through quite a lot of help files on the Adobe website regarding FlashSwf and AC_FL_RunContent script I couldn't come up with a solution. I think this is difficult without knowing exactly how the objects inside the script are named.

BUT, how about you just export to FLV, without the HTML page, and then use another FLV player, like the free Flowplayer, that definitely comes with an autoplay feature?! :cool:

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Thanks for that.

It's a real shame you cannot make it auto launch...
I was hoping to make a better v than sitepal- but if it wont auto launch I'll have to consider using sitpal instead- which is a shame...but if the characters cannot be made to auto launch, its no good for the purpose.

I'm surprised by this news as I asked a pre sales question before I bought, pre sales ,stated what I wanted to do (eg an auto launch sitepal) and was told yes I could go ahead and buy the prog for this purpose and that it would work as I needed it too.

I wouldn't have bought this prog otherwise. Why are they giving wrong info before people purchase?