TOC -- Online Movie Ticket booking

1. Online Movie Tickets in India – Booking movie tickets on internet
2. Online Movie tickets in India – Booking movie tickets on internet Part-2
3. Online Movie Tickets in India – Booking movie tickets on internet -Part 3

I have already written two posts on online booking of movie tickets earlier and this post is basically an update on that which comes to me in one of the comment on existing post. This effort is based in Kolkata and supports some of the multiplexes and theaters.

Very soon there will be more multiplexes in the listing on this website. You can use this website if you live in Kokata or visiting the place. Below is the link to website:

http://www.priyaentertainments.com/index.php

This is quite useful for engaging the user otherwise user is unaware of the activity that flash file is getting downloaded (which may take some time in case of bigger files and slow internet speed) and may loose his patience and go to some other website/application.

There are various ways to make Pre loaders in Flash. I worked on this in one of my projects and this how i achieved the Pre-loading status of flash movie.

The actual movie starts from 3rd frame of movie because first 2 frames was reserved for Pre-loader. Code checks status of download on 2nd frame and gotoAndPlay(1) is called which send control to first frame again. So movies runs only in first two frames where download status is checked and status bar or any other UI can be shown to user for status update.

Following are the steps.

1. Create first frame blank.
2. Put controls on 2nd frame to display the download status information.
3. Use following code to show download status info, put this code in action window of 2nd frame:

 
/* get value of bytes downloaded */
myLoaded = Math.round(getBytesLoaded());
/* get total size of flash movie */
myTotal = Math.round(getBytesTotal());
/* Calculate the percentage of movie downloaded */
myPercent = myLoaded/myTotal;
/* loadbar is UI component which is showing percentage downloaded on UI */
loadBar._width = myPercent*210;
/* Load text is UI component which is showing % on UI */
LoadTxt.text = Math.round(myPercent*100)+"%";
if (myLoaded == myTotal) {
    /* if complete movie is downloaded, Proceed */
    gotoAndPlay(3);
} else {
    /* If download is in progress , Go back to first frame*/
    gotoAndPlay(1);
}
 

Initially when I was testing this, I was not getting the UI components which i added to movie for showing download status i.e. loadBar and loadTxt. Then I found the reason.As movie was no completely loaded and its components were also not loaded, it was not showing any UI for pre-loader.

It required some extra configuration which was exporting action script classes of components to first frame. which can be done in following way:

1. Right Click on a component in library and choose Linkage… option.
2. You need to check all Linkage check boxes in this window, default window will look like this:

3. Do this for all custom components you are using for Preloader.

See in video below how Preloaders can be created in AS3 i.e. actionscript 3 which is slightly different from AS2 (actionscript 2) and provided in latest Flash environments (Adobe Flash CS3 and CS4)

source : http://www.gotoandlearn.com

Download it from here

• Simplified settings and dialogs
• Media library integration
• Album art displaying and metadata editing
• Live activation of Video and audio filters
• Basic encoding profiles
• Multiple start modes (classic, enhanced and minimalist)
• System tray icon and minimizing
• Fullscreen controller

According to their wiki following are improvements in Playback:

A lot of new decoders, demuxers, and protocols have been added.

This version also supports DVB windows devices (BDA), iSight Webcams, v4l2 on Linux and many other ones.

Other than this one very good improvement which was pointed out by one friend is that you can apply Audio and video filters. One of the audio filter is playing the audio with some offset with video which can fix some of the videos file with existing offset (lip synchronization).

VLC media player 0.9.2 – Grishenko from Antoine Cellerier on Vimeo.

TOC -- Online Movie Ticket booking

1. Online Movie Tickets in India – Booking movie tickets on internet
2. Online Movie tickets in India – Booking movie tickets on internet Part-2
3. Online Movie Tickets in India – Booking movie tickets on internet -Part 3

Second part of previous post about online ticket bookings by major cinemas and here i am listing all major online movie ticket facilitator websites which are not having cinema chains but a third-party websites which just do movie ticket booking business:

1. BookMyShow: I guess the most popular and having most coverage in all regions of India. There are many cinemas which are using Book My Show for booking their tickets as a technology partner.

Also book tickets for Concerts and Plays. You can pre-book tickets of movies before its release date. BookMyShow also has a mobile application which can be downloaded from website.

2. Bookeazy: This provides movie ticket booking only for Pune. It handles around 7 different cinema halls including INOX pune. You can also get Previews and Reviews of movies in a separate section.

3. iTicket: It provides movie ticket booking for smaller Bangalore cinemas. The list includes Abhinay, Innovative Multiplex, Kailash, Menaka, MovieLand, Mukunda, Navarang, Pallavi, Parimala, Poornima, RadhaKrishna-A/C, Rex, Santosh, Sri Renuka Prassana, Sri Venkateshwara, Tribhuvan, Triveni, Vaibhav, Vijay, Vision Cinemas.

Tickets can also be booked at its outlets which can also be located from the website.

5. kyazoonga: Provides movies ticket booking for Agra, Ahmedabad, Aurangabad, Baroda, Bengaluru, Chandigarh, Chennai, Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Goa, Gurgaon, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Kolkata, Kota, Latur, Lucknow, Ludhiana, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi, Noida, Panipat and Pune.

5. M2K: I guess this one was missed in last part so i just listed here. If you live or work in west (north-west) Delhi, you can check this. M2K cinemas is located on 2 locations, Rohini & Pitampura.

6. Cinemax : Another miss, Cinemax has presence in Nagpur, Andheri , Bandra, Eternity Mall, Thane, Goregaon (W), Growel’s, Kandivali (E), Guwahati Dona Planet, Kandivali (W), Nasik, College Road, Sion, Wonder Mall, Thane and recently launched in Ahmedabad.

Use internet to book your tickets and save time and resources.

Note: keep patience, it will take some time to download.