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I have made a code for an ad supported series


Function CreateHomeworkHelperzMenu() as integer
    screen = CreateObject("roGridScreen")
    port = CreateObject("roMessagePort")
    screen.SetMessagePort(port)
    
    screen.SetBreadcrumbText("Lunch", "Full Menu")
    screen.SetupLists(2)
    screen.SetListNames(["2016"])

    screen.SetContentList(0, GetHomeworkHelperzMenuOptions_2016()) 
        
    screen.show()
    
      while (true)
        msg = wait(0, port)
        if type(msg) = "roGridScreenEvent"
            if (msg.isScreenClosed())
                return -1
            else if (msg.isListItemSelected())
                showSpringboardScreen( msg.GetIndex() )
            showSpringboardScreen(videoContent)  

            endif
        endif
    end while
End Function

'*************************************************************
'** displayVideo()
'*************************************************************

Function displayVideo(args As Dynamic)
    print "Displaying video: "
    p = CreateObject("roMessagePort")
    video = CreateObject("roVideoScreen")
    video.setMessagePort(p)

    'bitrates  = [0]          ' 0 = no dots, adaptive bitrate
    'bitrates  = [348]    ' <500 Kbps = 1 dot
    'bitrates  = [664]    ' <800 Kbps = 2 dots
    'bitrates  = [996]    ' <1.1Mbps  = 3 dots
    'bitrates  = [2048]    ' >=1.1Mbps = 4 dots
    bitrates  = [0]    

   ' lengthy (20+ min.) TED talk to allow time for testing multiple ad pods
    videoContent = { streamFormat : "mp4" }
    videoContent.stream = { url:  "http://video.ted.com/talks/podcast/DavidKelley_2002_480.mp4",
                            bitrate: 800,
                            quality: false
                          }
    PlayContentWithAds(videoContent)

    if type(args) = "roAssociativeArray"
        if type(args.url) = "roString" and args.url <> "" then
            urls[0] = args.url
        end if
        if type(args.StreamFormat) = "roString" and args.StreamFormat <> "" then
            StreamFormat = args.StreamFormat
        end if
        if type(args.title) = "roString" and args.title <> "" then
            title = args.title
        else 
            title = ""
        end if
        if type(args.srt) = "roString" and args.srt <> "" then
            srt = args.StreamFormat
        else 
            srt = ""
        end if
    end if
    
    videoclip = CreateObject("roAssociativeArray")
    videoclip.StreamBitrates = bitrates
    videoclip.StreamUrls = urls
    videoclip.StreamQualities = qualities
    videoclip.StreamFormat = StreamFormat
    videoclip.Title = title
    print "srt = ";srt
    if srt <> invalid and srt <> "" then
        videoclip.SubtitleUrl = srt
    end if
    
    video.SetContent(videoclip)
    video.show()

    lastSavedPos   = 0
    statusInterval = 10 'position must change by more than this number of seconds before saving

    while true
        msg = wait(0, video.GetMessagePort())
        if type(msg) = "roVideoScreenEvent"
            if msg.isScreenClosed() then 'ScreenClosed event
                print "Closing video screen"
                exit while
            else if msg.isPlaybackPosition() then
                nowpos = msg.GetIndex()
                if nowpos > 10000
                    
                end if
                if nowpos > 0
                    if abs(nowpos - lastSavedPos) > statusInterval
                        lastSavedPos = nowpos
                    end if
                end if
            else if msg.isRequestFailed()
                print "play failed: "; msg.GetMessage()
            else
                print "Unknown event: "; msg.GetType(); " msg: "; msg.GetMessage()
            endif
        end if
    end while
End Function

When I play the series the show gets stuck on the loading screen

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Function displayVideo(args As Dynamic)

Shouldn’t “as dynamic” be outside the parentheses ?

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“squirreltown” wrote:
Function displayVideo(args As Dynamic)

Shouldn’t “as dynamic” be outside the parentheses ?

That definition is perfectly valid. If you don’t declare the return type for a function, it is implicitly “As Dynamic”.

Though the actual function implementation above doesn’t seem to be returning anything, so declaring it “As Void” might make it more clear.

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“RokuKC” wrote:

“squirreltown” wrote:
Function displayVideo(args As Dynamic)

Shouldn’t “as dynamic” be outside the parentheses ?

That definition is perfectly valid. If you don’t declare the return type for a function, it is implicitly “As Dynamic”.

Though the actual function implementation above doesn’t seem to be returning anything, so declaring it “As Void” might make it more clear.

Yea, I don’t know what I was thinking. Maybe I’m so used to looking at syntax highlighting it looked odd.

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Is there any way to fix this problem?