Amazon Prime Germany? (4 Viewers)

[JSurf]

After starting the video none of the keys worked. I clicked into the player with the mouse and then the the keys started working. Have a dual monitor setup here, and the playback started on the 2nd monitor. Will also test at home with my laptop

My current version is based on svn commit 3481

 

[Jason Pyke]

Hmmm, that's odd - the code does do a mouse click into the player first and then sends the keys.

It's difficult for me to debug here because I don't have prime. When you get a chance maybe set the browserhost to debug mode and add
MessageHandler.Debug messages into the DoPlayOrPause of the AmazonPrimeConnector. These messages will be written to the path in the browser host config. It's probably just a case of tweaking these few lines (in both DoPlayOrPause and OnAction):

Cursor.Position = new System.Drawing.Point(300, 300);
Application.DoEvents();
CursorHelper.DoLeftMouseClick();
Application.DoEvents();
System.Windows.Forms.SendKeys.Send(" ");

 

[netexplorer]

Hi,
@Jason Pyke I tested your last version. The keys are already mapped within MP because Space have the same function and Lef/Right also.

 

[JSurf]

Ok thats what i got now. Once i made sure the browser control runs on the first monitor it started partly working.
ESC-Key - Works
left/right - Works

Space - First "space" works but then double events occur. I think there are two events happening. The "space"-keypress event itself sends one event to the player directly somehow bypassing the browserhost code, and then a second event is sent by the "doplayorpause" function, thats my theory

In debug mode the following is possible:
1. Click another window, not the browserhost so browserhost window looses focus
2. Click the titlebar of the browserhost window, so it has focus but the player is not clicked
3. press space -> working as expected
4. press space a second time-> double event (repeat 4. as often as you like -> double event)
5. Goto 1.[DOUBLEPOST=1421336181][/DOUBLEPOST]Actually it looks like we get three eventswhen it is working, and two events when it is not working

Log for 3.
15 Jan 2015 16:33:15 HandleKeyPress to be processed 32
15 Jan 2015 16:33:15 OnNewAction received ACTION_PAUSE
15 Jan 2015 16:33:15 OnNewAction received ACTION_PLAY


Log for 4.
15 Jan 2015 16:33:40 HandleKeyPress to be processed 32
15 Jan 2015 16:33:40 OnNewAction received ACTION_PAUSE

 

[Jason Pyke]

OK, that sounds promising and the space double press is entirely feasible. I know @Ministerk uses a similar technique for the Netflix connector (which is where I copied the code from), but I'm not sure how he's got round this double press issue.

I guess the code which I added to set the browser form to have to focus after pausing/playing isn't having an effect and I guess you've reduced the frequency of the timerCtl as well (which is there to make sure the form has focus).

Maybe try handling the got focus event of the browser and maybe set the focus back to the form at that point? (after playback has started). It'd be ideal if we could actually get the state of playback (using javascript or something) and work it from there, but I'm not sure how feasible that is.[DOUBLEPOST=1421338329][/DOUBLEPOST]Those difference in events are possibly not relevant because looking through the code I think it'll only call play/pause in the connector once in both cases. Maybe you could add a logging line to the play and pause events in the connector (MessageHandler.Debug) and see what that reports as coming through.

 

[Ministerk]

I know @Ministerk uses a similar technique for the Netflix connector (which is where I copied the code from), but I'm not sure how he's got round this double press issue.

I think I go around the double press issue by clicking with the mouse before sending keys. The Netflix silverlight player gets focus and not the browser player. I'm certain you both experienced the problem with closing browser tabs with ctrl+w because the video player has focus and not the browser tab.

 

[Jason Pyke]

I copied your code for doing that and I think it's working. The problem here is that if you use the space key for play/pause, it most of the time sends that to Silverlight to play/pause and then it goes through the browser host to send the same key again. I'm thinking there must be a way of stopping Silverlight ever having focus, but as I don't have access to Prime right now I can't test it out.

Maybe I'll see if they'll give me another free trial.

 

[Ministerk]

I'm thinking there must be a way of stopping Silverlight ever having focus

For me (Netflix) needs to have focus on the silverlight player for kea strokes, otherwise I have to resort to finding play/pause button and clock with mouse (not fixed positioned). Forward and rewind functionality would have to be dropped. Could this be a site setting if you need it not to have focus?

 

[JSurf]

Had a look at the javascript-API of the player yesterday.

- There is a pause function that works perfectly amzn.webGlobalVideoPlayer._mainPlayer.pause();
- There is a status function amzn.webGlobalVideoPlayer._mainPlayer.getStatus();

Unfortunately there is no play/resume function that works as expected. There are around 4 functions that do a "play" but they all restart the player completely with buffering. There is also a parameter called createNewPlayerObject on some of the play methods but even setting this to false has no effect.

 

[Vasilich]

and calling pause() second dime (while already in pause) doesn't resume play?