Flash :: Playing .dcr Files On Linux-based Server

Playing Specific Sound Files Based On Letters In User Entered Word
Hi

I had an idea.

I was thinking that it may be possible to create a primitive, yet usable actionscript based text to speech system for Flash movies (One that is platform independent).

The biggest problem that I could think of off hand is this.

Is it possible to right a series of actionscript commands that would play a collection of certain sound files based on what word or words the user has entered?

For example:

If the user types "Red Pen"

Can actionscript tear apart those two words and play sound files "Arr", "ee", "Dee", "Pee", "ee" and "EN"?

If it is possible, and if someone could help me out on it, then I'll start figuring out what phonetic sounds I'll need to record and program, and see if I can't build a simple text to speech program for flash movies.
I have no immediate commercial application for it, and I don't plan on one.
So if I can pull it off it'll be free to everyone, source code and all. Of course, it may be in my voice, but it shouldn't be hard to take what I plan to do and use it as a template for anyone else's voice recordings.

I hope its possible, seems likely enough. I think I saw somewhere where actionscript could separate the letters of a word from each other, and from there you just need something along the lines of a series of if statements. But I don't know where to find the code needed.

I'd appreciate any help you may be capable of offering.

-Lem

Is There A Text-based FMS 3 Installer For Linux?
Just downloaded FMS 3 for Linux. Per (flashmediaserver_install.pdf) installer document, it implies that you must run some kind of X Window (Gnome or KDE) to in order to install the product. Is that true? If that is true, is there an alternative, such as a text-based installer? Thanks.

.swf Not Working On Linux Server
Here's the story,,,,when I place any flash pieces on my linex server it will find the .html, open the .swf and start in on the loader, but will go no further. it just loops the first few k of the .swf over and over and never goes further......

If I take those same files and put them on another kind of server....they work fine...... it's obviously finding the files but won't finish loading it.....

any ideas? any information about linux I should know?

thanks-

Need Some One Who Is Running On A Linux Server
how do I set up a linux server to be able to use my swf's ?
I was on a nt server but wanted to be able to use php so paid and moved to a linux server with interland.com. but the said I would have to set it up to be able to use swf's the refured be to this url and it told be the fallowing.

What if your server wasn't set up to deliver certain file types properly? A common occurrence with MP3 or even SWF files. Simple enough to fix:

AddType application/x-shockwave-flash swf

AddType is specifying that you are adding a MIME type. The application string is the actual parameter of the MIME you are adding, and the final little bit is the default extension for the MIME type you just added, in our example this is swf for ShockWave File.

sounds great but I have idea what the are talking about.

Publishing On An Linux-Server
^Hi,

we´re working on windows machines. Now we have changed from an Windows-Server to a Linux-Server.
We have partioned the harddisk to a none-NTFS or FAT32, (it´s called XFS).

Since then, we cannot publish directly on the Server,

Has anyone experience with that (Publishing for Windows-PC to Linux-Servers)

Thanks

Fps>50 Problems On Server Linux
Hi ,
i noticed my server Linux has troubles to manage swf files with fps>50.
I mean when i upload my swf and i realize i've to lift the fps vel the server works good until about 50 fps , after this number the velocity does not change.

Did it happens to someone?
Any suggestion?
thx

[F8] Linux Vs Windows Server
Hi there,

I'm looking for a bit of advice. I have a flash file, currently running on a Windows based server, which works perfectly fine, but when I transfer the same file to a Linux based server it does not load.

We have tried running a different flash file on the Linux server and everything works fine. For the problem flash file, I used the Firefox live headers plugin and the correct MIME type is being passed.

Apache has also been setup correctly to handle the flash files.

Any ideas why this might be?

Many thanks in advance.

James

LoadMovie Help On Linux Server
Trying to get a simple loadMovie to work in the main timeline. Works on my local pc then when loaded to the server comes up blank.

scripting below:
loadMovie("V1L-KNOCKIN.SWF", v1swap);

all the .swf files reside in the root folder contained with the others including the index.html, same as my local machine all files are good with chmod (all access)

PHP Sockets On Linux Server
how do i make this work on a remote linux server? assuming i know the server administrator.

Linux Server And Flash Forms
I am having problems with one of our Linux servers supporting a flash form. We are using WebMail as our authoring program for the form but when we load the page with the form online it does not work. However, when I test the swf file before uploading it, it works as a standalone file. I'm Confused! Can someone help me with this or offer advice or other form mail scripts that can be used on Linux Servers. Thanks in advance.

AS3 Not Working When Uploaded To Linux Server
Works like a charm when I preview it but when I upload to the server (tried 3 different ones) it just ignore the actionscripts all together no matter what I use.

What I have is a rotating banner system. I set it up to randomly start at a specific one. If I preview it locally or run in in my .html file locally (just using preview in dreamweaver) it works like a charm and starts at a random one. When I upload it it just starts at the first one like the actionscripts do not exist.

Using Flash CS3 and AS3.

Thanks

NetConnection Problem To Linux Media Server
Installed a Flash Media Server on Redhat ELsmp, when try NetConnection.connect, it always stuck at somewhere. the onStatus callback never invoked, I can see some traffic back and forth in ethereal, but the connection never completed. However, the same code on Windows Flash Media Server works well.

Anybody have an idea what is going on?

Thanks

Setting Up FMS On A Remote Server With Linux Platform
Can anybody help me with setting up FMS on a remote server that runs linux?

Linux Issue With Flash Media Server 2
Greetings all,

We have just upgraded from Flash Communication Server 1.5 to Flash Media Server 2, running on a server with Redhat Enterprise Linux 4.

For some reason, a Flash movie that uses the old MediaPlayBack component does not stream video of a FLV. It does stream audio. On my testing server using Windows 2000 it functioned fine.

On the other hand, the FLVPlayback component works nicely. But I will have to go back and rewrite literally dozens of applications that I wrote for Flash Comm 1.5 which used the MediaPlaybackComponent, unless there is an easy fix for this.

I have documented this anomaly with a Captivate movie which you can see at http://breeze.stfrancis.edu:8900/mediaplayerwoes/. It runs 2 minutes 13 seconds.

I BADLY need help with this. If you can help I would greatly appreciate it.

Glen Gummess,
Instructional Designer
University of St. Francis
Joliet, IL

Edited: 06/27/2007 at 07:57:59 AM by Glen Gummess

Flash Media Server 3 Linux Download?
I've been trying for two days to download the Linux version of the developer edition of this new product.

However, whether you choose Linux or Windows, you always get the same zip file, and it does not appear to contain the contents for installing on Linux.

I sent a message to Adobe support about this yesterday, and have heard nothing back, and the issue still persists.

Makes it awfully hard to actually evaluate the product!

Can't seem to find a more direct link to the file, either, and none of the topics I found on the forums that seemed to cover similar issues were helpful.

Installing Flash Media Server 3 On Linux
We would like to install and use FMS 3 on an existing streaming media server (IBM SERVE RAID) running Redhat Enterprise Linux 4ES, using Webmin 1.290. How would one install the server and specify path to server for live streaming off Live Connect and other applications that will be using flash video ( .flv) files.

Any assistance is appreciated!

Read A File On Linux Server With Actionscript
Hi,
I'm writing a flash application that loads an XML file from a Linux webserver. I know how to do this using a URL, but I don't want the XML file to be accessible to just anyone, so I have it above the webroot. Is there any way to have actionscript load a file using a filepath instead of a URL (e.g. '/tmp/folder/file')?

Thanks.

Flash Media Interactive Server With Redhat Enterprise Linux ?
Was wondering if anyone was having issues trying to install the flash media interactive server on a RedHat Enterprise Linux machine. It seems that the installer that is packaged with the program in incompatiable. If so what are you doing to get the server installed? Thanks for any help

I Get A Weird Error When Installing Flash Media Server On Red Hat Linux...
I am trying to instal 2.01 on my RH Linux server, and when i use platformWarnOnly it still gives me this error:

[root@video FMS_2_0_1_r27_linux]# ./installFMS -platformWarnOnly
./fmsini: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

ERROR: Your are running the Macromedia Flash Media Server installer
on the wrong platform.

Any idea how i can fix this?

Big Big Problem With Unicode Files In Linux
I have a problem and i BEG for your help!

i made a flash site, that loads some .txt files (created in Win XP and saved as unicode from notepad)
and reads them. The problem was that it couldn't read the .txt in linux pcs, although it read them fine in windows (even though they were stored in a linux server).

The language used in these files is greek if this matters. The major problem is that linux cannot read these files (so that i can edit them). I think that flash can read .php files that might solve my problem. But i don't know how to read a .php from flash.

i mean i just write loadVariablesNum("test.php",0);
and then? what format must the php files have and how can i manage the information provided?

I know that this is a very long post but i'm in a freaky situation (i have no internet access at home anymore) and i found out hte problem when we tried to upload the files to the real linux server they were meant to be. So if anyone knows plz help me!!!

Any Tools Under Linux To Generate Swf Files?
Hello,
I'm a teacher in a school in Italy.
I was interested in creating some interactive lessons, but I'm using only open source software, under linux.

Do you know any tool that can help me in creating swf lessons ???

Thanks!

Flash Player Older Versions For Linux/socket Policy Files
can anyone tell me where i can download FP 9.0.115 for linux from?

Adobe site gives only windows versions

actually i am doing a project that relies on XMLSocket for client-server communications (can't use urlloader, requires real time connection). when i installed FP in our new linux machine, 9.0.124 was automatically installed and i can't make XMLSocket connection from that due to new security policy.
(i read a lot of white papers about setting up a socket server and having a master policy file and stuff but nothing worked for me. i put the crossdomain.xml with allow-access-from ='*' and to-ports ='*' in every possible folders to no avail so i thought i would leave that head ache for another time and go on with 9.0.115 for the time being); it would be a great help if u can guide me to the correct method here.... (i am using Twisted Python server);

Time BASED On Server
Hey all,
I have a clock that shows time according to local pc time but i want it to show according to the server. I have got the clock going according to server time but it is still the arms dosen't seem to move in rotation..Can nyone tell me why?
thanks in advance.

here's the code.

onClipEvent (load) {
this.loadVariables("time.asp");
}

MyDate = new Date();
curTime = 0;
if (hours>24) {
hours = 0+(hours-24);
} else if (hours<0) {
hours = 24+hours;
}
function showTime() {
MyDate = new Date();
//MyDate.setTime(curTime);
t = [];
t[0] = MyDate.getHours();
_root.test1 = t[0];
t[1] = MyDate.getMinutes();
_root.test2 = t[1];
t[2] = MyDate.getSeconds();
_root.test3 = t[2];
servertime.text = t.join(":");
//this.hours_mc._rotation = (MyDate.getHours())*30;
//this.minutes_mc._rotation = (MyDate.getMinutes())*6;
//this.seconds_mc._rotation = (MyDate.getSeconds())*6;
_root.testmsg = "entertimer";
//angle = this.seconds_mc._rotation;
//this.seconds_mc._rotation = angle+1;
}
//showTime();

//For Hands to show ryt time
hours_mc._rotation = (MyDate.getHours())*30;
minutes_mc._rotation = (MyDate.getMinutes())*6;
seconds_mc._rotation = (MyDate.getSeconds())*6;

the codes works fine locally but when uploaded to server the hands of clock doesn't move?
plz reply....

Server Based Variable Sharing
lo,

what is the basic method for sharing a load of changing variables between a load of clients over a server?

jason

Clock Based On PHP/server Time?
I'm trying to make a world clock - independant of the users system time.

Has anyone made a Flash clock that reads the time from the server via PHP?

Or is there an easier way to do this?
I admit I'm a bit behind with what Flash MX can do these days. Would really appreciate any tips before I reinvent the wheel.

[MX04] Server-based Save2file
How would you save to an external file in flash in a server environment.
I know there's a method involving PHP but I don't know it lol. Yes my server has PHP.

Who Makes Server Based Flash Authoring?
hi,

do you know of a person/company that has solution for server/web based authoring of flash files?

i am want to contract others to make templates, then have end-users use the templates to create customized presentations that can be downloaded.

Problem With A Server Time Based Clock
Hi guys....

I have been sitting with this for ages now... As a last resort I thought of asking if anyone can help me.

Basically I want to have a clock on my web site. The time of the clock needs to be server based. I got a tip to create a php file and reload it every second to get a ticking clock. I realsied that this ate the clients bandwidth and was not a good solution for me.

Then i figured something else. I get the server time via the php-page and import the seconds, minutes and hours into flash only once. Then i can use these variables and create my own clock. Basically the Flash file have 3 frames.

Frame 1 loads the base time from the php

varReceiver = new LoadVars();
varReceiver.load("clockremote.php");
varReceiver.onLoad = function()
{
var hours;
var minutes;
var seconds;
hours = this.se_timmar;
minutes = this.se_minuter;
seconds = this.se_sekunder;
hours = parseInt(hours);
minutes = parseInt(minutes);
seconds = parseInt(seconds);
if(hours<10)
{
hoursString = "0" + hours;
}
else {hoursString=hours}
if(minutes<10)
{
minutesString = "0" + minutes;
}
else {minutesString=minutes}
if(seconds<10)
{
secondsString = "0" + seconds;
}
else {secondsString=seconds}
clock_txt.text = hoursString + ":" + minutesString + ":" + secondsString;
};

The 2nd frame adds a second and checks if i need to add change the minutes or the hours and so on... and looks like this

var secondsString;
var minutesString;
var hoursString;
var seconds=seconds+1;
var minutes;
var hours;

if (seconds == 60)
{
minutes = minutes+1;
seconds = 00;
}
if (minutes == 60)
{
minutes = 00;
hours = hours+1;
}
if (hours == 24)
{
hours = 00;
}
//var day = this.se_dag;

if(hours<10)
{
hoursString = "0" + hours;
}
else {hoursString=hours}
if(minutes<10)
{
minutesString = "0" + minutes;
}
else {minutesString=minutes}
if(seconds<10)
{
secondsString = "0" + seconds;
}
else {secondsString=seconds}
clock_txt.text = hoursString + ":" + minutesString + ":" + secondsString;
day_txt.text = day;

The 3rd frams is just a loop back to frame 2.

The php file looks like this:

<?php

//$diff=$timediff;
$diff=+0;
$diffsecs=$diff*3600;
$se_timmar = date("H")+$diff;
$se_minuter = date("i");
$se_sekunder = date("s");

if ($se_timmar < 0) $se_timmar += 24;

if ($se_timmar < 10) {$se_timmar = "0".$se_timmar;}
if ($se_minuter < 10) {$se_minuter = "0".$se_minuter;}
if ($se_sekunder < 10) {$se_sekunder = "0".$se_sekunder;}

echo ("&se_timmar=$se_timmar");
echo ("&se_minuter=$se_minuter");
echo ("&se_sekunder=$se_sekunder");

?>

All sounds good but...

i get the base number from the php file and it displays fine in my swf file. For example 23:05:56. Then when it jumps to frame 2 I want to add one second and dislpay it... 23:05:57 INstead it gives me 0:0:0 and then 0:0:01 and so on... INstead of continuing on the server time i aquired and displayed in frame 1 it starts from 0:0:0.

can anyone help ???

Thanks

Johan

ComboBox Selection Based On Server Reply.
Has anyone been abgle to control a ComboBox' selection?
I mean, if you can control the checkBox' or radioButton's selected status, can you tell the ComboBox which item you wish it to display as the selection?

Flash Changes Based On Response From Server Without Page Refresh
I am trying to have my flash movie change based on the feedback from a command sent to the server to check it's state.

If the command returns any one of six variables then the flash file will reflect that.

In this case a series of five buttons are all up if the server returns a "0".
If the server returns a "1" the first button is down and the other four are up.
If the server returns a "2"...shampoo rinse repeat, all the way through the fifth button.

I am exploring a few different ways of doing this, but I'd like to keep the scripting for this within the flash actionscripting.

Any and all feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in Advance.
djc23cons

Playing Imported SWF Based On Weight Measure
Greetings. I have a text file with 10 variable/value (name, filename, weight) that get pulled into a Flash file. I'm trying to have the Flash file choose one of the variable/value pairs based on the weighted value. So that if Name4/Filename4/Weight4 has a higher weight, it will play before Name2/Filename2/Weight2 which may have a lower weighted number. The basis for this is a simple banner system that will display banners with higher weights first.

Any thoughts on this?
J.

Buttons Playing Animations Based On Order
Hello, I am using flash mx 2004 and I was wondering if someone could give me a push in the right direction regarding how to accomplish the following interface.
I have a project gallery where each project contains about 25 buttons. Each button is a thumbnail for a larger image, pretty basic stuff. What i want is to be able to press the first thumbnail and have it play an anim that displays the first image, basically so it folds down. Then when you press a second button the first button moves to the back and folds up slightly and the second button takes its place. Then when a third thumbnail is pressed the first button folds up completely and the second one takes it place and the third one becomes the top image. Hopefully that makes sense.
My thought was to have three variables for each state and swap each symbol out as the buttons are pressed but I am not sure how to do this...

thanks in advance

-Brad

[CS3] Playing Sound Based On Mouse Position
Hello there,

I have created a document 600x300 filled with buttons for a rollover effect. I want to be able to play sounds dependant on the x and y position of the mouse without having to use objects that interfere with the buttons. I have heard that this is possible, yet I cant seem to find anywhere that I can learn how to do this.

Does anyone know how I could go about this?

Cheers

PP

Turn Based Multiplayer - Is Flash Media Server 2 The Thing For Me?
Hello World

I'm starting to get somewhere in my Flash application development, I'm actually producing something that 1) Works and 2) Is useful
So, now that I have my turn based game running and actually an AI to play it against, I'm starting to wonder about the next step - Multiplayer against a human opponent. So, to play against a human opponent located somewhere on the net, I've heard (that is, read in forum posts), that Flash Media Server 2 is used to handle Multiplayer stuffs and net connections etc. But I've also read a little about something called "PHPObject", and I think that also was capable of some multiplayer stuff, right?

So now I'm wondering, to make turn based multiplayer action (I don't dare start with Real time action yet, and I probably never will), can I use PHPObject for this or should I go with Flash Media Server 2?

Flash Media Server 2 seems to be the best solution for all this Multiplayer stuff. But I'm wondering - can I install this on my Linux Apache webserver? If so, how much bandwidth will it occupy approximately? Will it disturb the other activity on the webserver? (I, my brother and two of his friends share the same webserver) Or is it a Windows-Only application which cannot be installed on a Linux Apache webserver? if that's the case then how do I install/use it?

I hope someone, who hasn't gone sick of all these multiplayer-in-Flash-questions, can reply to me

[F8] Playing Swf/video Based On Radio Button Selection
I have created a form in Flash 8 that has 4 radio buttons and a submit button. I would like to play videos (swfs) based on which radio button the user selects.

The radio button labels are “spring”, “summer”, “fall” and “winter”.

I would like to be able to write actionscript that does the following:

If the “spring” radio button is selected, when the “submit” button is clicked, load the “prelude_spring” movie.

If the “summer” radio button is selected, when the “submit” button is clicked, load the “prelude_summer” movie.

If the “fall” radio button is selected, when the “submit” button is clicked, load the “prelude_fall” movie.

If the “winter” radio button is selected, when the “submit” button is clicked, load the “prelude_winter” movie.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Playing A Movie Clip Based On Mouse Coordinates
I have a navigation menu that contain individual buttons. here is what i want to happen:

when the user's mouse goes near those buttons i want a movieclip to fade in behind the buttons and when they roll out of that area to fade out. i tried attaching the code to each button which works, but it fades out slightly each time when the user is going from one button to the next. I need that movie clip to be faded in the whole time they are in that region. can someone help me with this? Thanks a lot.

Playing Swf/video Based On Radio Button Selection
I have created a form in Flash 8 that has 4 radio buttons and a submit button. I would like to play videos (swfs) based on which radio button the user selects.

The radio button labels are â€œspringâ€, â€œsummerâ€, â€œfallâ€ and â€œwinterâ€.

I would like to be able to write actionscript that does the following:

If the â€œspringâ€ radio button is selected, when the â€œsubmitâ€ button is clicked, load the â€œprelude_springâ€ movie.

If the â€œsummerâ€ radio button is selected, when the â€œsubmitâ€ button is clicked, load the â€œprelude_summerâ€ movie.

If the â€œfallâ€ radio button is selected, when the â€œsubmitâ€ button is clicked, load the â€œprelude_fallâ€ movie.

If the â€œwinterâ€ radio button is selected, when the â€œsubmitâ€ button is clicked, load the â€œprelude_winterâ€ movie.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

How Do I Load A Different JPG Into A SWF Based On The HTML File Playing It? [renamed]
Hi, I would like to load a different image inside a flash movie depending upon what .html filename my wesite is displaying. So, for example if im on index.html I would like an index image to load in a movieclip and when I'm on a (anything).html i want (anything).jpg to load. I know I can do this with loadmovie and however is there a way to detect what .html page the user is on or is there a better way of going about this? Thanks in advance

Token-based Authentication Using Asp .Net C#, JW Player 4.3, Web Services And Flash Media Server 3.5
With the release of Abode Flash Media Server 3.5 companies can expand their media capabilities through a suite of web distribution channel such as Video-on-Demand, Multi-Communication Chat and Live streaming. The server provides security mechanisms to verify Flash players, encrypt media streams and cross-domain authorization. However, in order to use a customized security solution the server can use web services to integrate with your application.

For those that are interested you can read the article here Fix The Glitch Blog

Mp3 Not Playing On My Server....Please Help
Hi, Can anyone help?????

I have a program that runs great on my local machine but not on my hosted machine. I am loading external mp3 files from my Flash MX program..exported to Flash 6. The sound plays on my local machine even when my path is linked to my server... BUT when I run the program from my web site I do not here the sound. I did create the correct pathname to the files becasue I can link to them from my local machine and hear the mp3 files with no problem... PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks is advance for any help! Debra

Code:

_global.soundplayfile = function (tempsndfile,whattodo){
slideSound.stop();
slideSound = new Sound();
slideSound.loadSound((pathname+tempsndfile), true);
slideSound.start();
slideSound.onSoundComplete = function (){whattodo};
}

Please Help ... Mp3 Not Playing On My Server
I have a program that runs great on my local machine but not on my hosted machine. I am loading external mp3 files from my Flash MX program..exported to Flash 6. The sound plays on my local machine even when my path is linked to my server... BUT when I run the program from my web site I do not here the sound. I did create the correct pathname to the files becasue I can link to them from my local machine and hear the mp3 files with no problem... PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks is advance for any help! Debra

Code:

_global.soundplayfile = function (tempsndfile,whattodo){
slideSound.stop();
slideSound = new Sound();
slideSound.loadSound((pathname+tempsndfile), true);
slideSound.start();
slideSound.onSoundComplete = function (){whattodo};
}