Difference between Video > Has Ended and Video > playback event > Ended?

Hello,

I would like to know if there is a difference between

Video > Has ended

and

Video > Playback Events > Ended

The manual seems to say exactly the same thing:

Has ended

True if the video playback has reached the end of the video and stopped.

Ended: triggered when playback reaches the end of the video.

Link : construct.net/en/make-games/manuals/construct-3/plugin-reference/video

I tried them in my game and they seem to be doing exactly the same thing.

However, I'm getting occasional stalls in my videos when using playback event "can play through", I would like to only start playing the video when 100% sure the whole video can play through. That's what I was expecting Playback event > "Ended" to do but it doesn't seem to be the case. The video simply never starts playing.

Is that normal? If yes, any tip on how I can trigger my video only when the full video is loaded?

Thanks for your help!

+ Video: On Ended

You see, this event has a green arrow, which means it's a trigger, and it will fire only once when the video ends.

+ Video: Has ended

This event is similar to a Boolean variable; you can check at any time whether the video has ended or not, and if you set it up this way, it will do this 60 times per secon

Thank you for the reply, that makes sense.

Then I guess there's no way to check if the video has completely finished preloading and be 100% sure there will be no stalling.

Is there any best practices to avoid that? I see there's a "stalled" playback event which triggers when a stall occurs, but I have no idea what to do with that. If a stall occurs, it's already too late.

Either someone who already uses video will stop by here and help us, or you can share a small video project that has a problem, and then I'll be able to take a look and try to help.