We have a bunch of audio and video assets on our site. Currently we play audio with a little shockwave mp3 player and video (flvs) with flvplayer. I have a requirement to record a 'usage' of a particular resource whereby the user selects a video or sound clip, then sets a start point and an end point in it, to select a ten second snippet out of the middle say.
Note that i don't want to go and save a new file or anything - I would just make a record in the db to say 'user A chose resource B, from point C to point D'. That end of things is fine. It's the setting of the start and end points that's the problem.
Can anyone recommend a free flash or shockwave app that i can use both as the interface for setting the start and the end point, and also playing it back with the appropriate start and end point (given those points as parameters for example)?
If you know one that just works for audio, but not video, or just does playback from a start and end point, but doesn't let you set them, i'd still like to know about it, but obviously one that does everything would be ideal
thanks a lot, max