how do i trigger video without it freezing?

luketaylor96

Hey guys, i am currently working on a project where i need to read a database once to store a specific word in a variable, trigger a video to play and then repeat. However i can load the database in and pick out that specific word but when i get to the triggering it is like it plays one frame of the video and then freezes until the next repeat, I can't seem to solve this and some help would be great. Ill post my code below.

import processing.video.*;
Movie joyMov, sadnessmMov, angerMov, fearMov, analyticalMov, confidentMov, tentativeMov;
JSONArray values;

String mLab = "";

String Joy = "Joy";
String Fear = "Fear";
String Anger = "Anger";
String Sadness = "Sadness";
String Analytical = "Analytical";
String Confident = "Confident";
String Tentative = "Tentative";
String tone1;

void setup() {
  size(640, 360);
  //fullScreen();
  //surface.setResizable(true);
  background(0);
  frameRate(30);
  joyMov = new Movie(this, "joy.mp4");
  sadnessmMov = new Movie(this, "");
  angerMov = new Movie(this, "");
  fearMov = new Movie(this, "");
  analyticalMov = new Movie(this, "");
  confidentMov = new Movie(this, "");
  tentativeMov = new Movie(this, "");
  joyMov.loop();
}

void draw() {

  float count = frameCount % 150;
  if (count == 0) { 
   readDB();
   println(tone1);
   if(tone1.equals(Joy) == true) {
     println("the tone is: Joy");
     playJoyMov();
   } else if(tone1.equals(Anger) == true) {
     println("the tone is: Anger");
   } else if(tone1.equals(Sadness) == true) {
     println("the tone is: Sadness");
   } else if(tone1.equals(Fear) == true) {
     println("the tone is: Fear");
   } else if(tone1.equals(Analytical) == true) {
     println("the tone is: Analytical");
   } else if(tone1.equals(Confident) == true) {
     println("the tone is: Confident");
   } else if(tone1.equals(Tentative) == true) {
     println("the tone is: Tentative");
   }
  }
}

void readDB(){
  //load json from mlabs db
  values = loadJSONArray(mLab);
      //println(values[values.size()]);

  //for (int i = 0; i < values.size(); i++) {

    JSONObject tweet = values.getJSONObject(values.size()-1);
    println(tweet);

    //String location = tweet.getString("location");
    //String text = tweet.getString("tweet");
    //tone = tweet.values.getString("tone");
    tone1 = tweet.getString("tone");
    //println(location + " | " + text + " | " + tone);

  //}
}

void movieEvent(Movie m) {
  m.read();
}

void playJoyMov() {
  image(joyMov, 0, 0, width, height);
}

koogs

You are only updating anything every 150 frames, and only then if the json is correct, which it isn't, mlab is empty.

koogs

Introduce a current video global. Display the current frame from the current movie in every draw loop.

Your 150th frame checking should be changed to decide which video is current.