Please HELP - How play a video and update page without restart of page

[crazyausie]

G'day All, First time poster here, and pretty stressed out atm.

 

I am creating a website for Uni, and have a page where animal videos are being watched.

 

A list of icons is present next to the video and represents all differnt animal types that are present in the video. When a user clicks a icon, information about that icon (animal) is displayed in a form.

 

This works fine.

 

The issue is when the information is displayed the video restarts! Been trying to use the AJAX update panel, but each time  a element is updated (anywhere)the video restarts. For testing purposes even tried just placing in a GIF file and the same thing happens? Is there a way to update a section of a page without restarting the media player?

 

Or should i just try and find another solution? (I have a group member suggesting popup window, but like everyone, we ALL hate popups!

 

I am using Visual Studio 2005 and have to use this version (as the UNI is pove and wont update to 2008).

 

Any help at ALL would be VERY much aprciated!

 

Regards Very stressed out Student! :'(

 

[JasonLewis]

So let's get this straight, they click the icon and the page reloads and displays information of that animal in a form that is already present on the page?

 

You can just use JavaScript (no AJAX) for this. Although if people have JavaScript disabled then the video will need to be restarted.

 

We'd need to some some relevant code to the form and perhaps the images that are being displayed. Too me this doesn't seem very PHP related, but that doesn't matter.

 

PS: Go Australia!