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Flash 8 Video Encoding Error
I edited a video file using Windows Media Maker and saved it as .wmv file. I was trying to import the video into Flash 8 and unfortunately I get this error

The source file [filename] contains video in an unsupported format and cannot be encoded.

Well, after that I encoded from wmv to avi and mpg but the same error comes out. Not just that, every video I try to import into Flash 8, I get the same error.

Someone please give me some advice on this.
My video file is here : http://sung-siew.com/tmp/disco_ext.wmv
It's a 5 MB wmv file, any help on encoding the video to FLV or SWF is greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

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Flash Video Encoding Upside Down ?
All the sudden my Flash 8 and flash Video Encoder import my source videos UPSIDE DOWN.
They export FLV files UPSIDE DOWN.
The source footage plays normally in Affter Effects, Premiere Pro, WIN Media etc...so what gives?

Who has solved this problem?
I need a fast solution.

Edited: 02/02/2006 at 01:17:33 AM by joshIMPinc

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I used Flash Video with Studio 8 many times, but ran into a problem with
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It appears to finish encoding, but when I view the video, the video stops at
approx. 3/4s of the way. Any suggestions? I've tried it importing several
Quicktime videos, all with the same result.

Thanks
Susan

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I'm trying to create Flash video from an HD After Effects sequence, but all of the encoding options/methods I try are too lossy. Does anyone have a suggestion for a method to get lossless, or nearly so, quality HD into Flash Video? This is for an offline presentation and so file size isn't an issue.

I've tried direct FLV exports with both VP6 and Spark at maximum data rates. I've also tried compressing to quicktime with H.264 and then converting that to FLV to see if the intermediate H.264 encoding would ease the FLV compression drops without success.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

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I'm working on a site and have been using wildform flix pro to batch encode a load of videos and export the html.
but the powers that be have asked me to look into using macromedia flash instead.
are there any real benefits of using one over the other?
or are there any better options than these two?
thanks

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Flash Video Encoder Stops Encoding
Hello,

I've been using a lot of FVE lately. It was working perfectly since this morning, and I can't figure out what the problem is.

I use uncompressed AVI files and then convert them to flv, 700 Kb, On2 VP6 files (no audio). For some reason, the encoding porocess stops after a while, more or less always at the same frame. The thing is, the log from FVE doesn't report this error and FVE seems to consider everything went fine. When I open the resulting flv, it appears to be normally long, but the playback stops at the same moment the encoding did.

Has anyone a clue ? I would surely appreciate it...

Thanks in advance

Boris

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Using Flash Video Encoder.

Anyone know why with some .mov files - the encode audio option is available and with some it isn't, when there is audio on both .mov files?

cheers.

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I tried to encode some of my DiVX Avi files into FLV files. However, the Video Encoder only allows me to select from a few preset settings. The "Encode Video" portion under the "Advanced Settings" is totally greyed out. I reckon that there must be a way to enable those settings; does anyone know how?

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I recently started posting some videos to the web, and I am going from an NTSC DV AVI capture straight to an FLV. I notice that my final FLV is a little stretched/squished and think it's probably because of the changeover from non-square pixels in the DV format to square pixels in the FLV. How do I correct for this?

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I'm trying to import video into a Flash movie (embedded) and it's telling me that it's unable to read the source video codec, even though it's the same codec I've been using for this last year and I've successfully imported this kind of video on other occasions.

I've done some screen capture with CamStudio, using its native lossless codec (CamStudio Lossless Codec v1.0) to produce AVIs. The funny thing is that not only will my Flash movie not import the new video, it won't import older videos that I successfully imported just a few months ago. Nor will it import AVIs made with other codecs: LZO Codec v0.4, Microsoft Video 1.

I'm guessing something has changed on my system but I can't imagine what. Anyone else running into this?

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I have a problem with the proxus player, and also other testing stuff I have done.
When I test my files locally, they work perfect, but when I test them online, they seem to download into the player, but stops after playing about 1 second.
Now I have tested compressing the files even more, to get smaller filesizes, and then they seem to play some more, 5 seconds, then even smaller, they play about 10 seconds before they stop.
My isp told me that they have set up the flv mime extension, so I don't think that this is the problem. However I have no idea how to check that it actually is set up...
Does anyone have an idea about this.

I have recently used flash 8 to encode the files.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

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Hi, I am using Flash 8 on a Windows XP system. I have been trying to encode some *.avi and *.wmv into *.flv. Although I can see the video when it is encoding (via the preview screen), but when it is finished encoding, and I add it into my Flash file, or just simply playing it, I only get sound and NO video.'

Any resolution to this?

Thanks.

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Encoding Video Issue
I have compressed a couple of movies with Flash Video Encoder...
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Take a look for yourself:
www.notjustthenews.co.uk
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SWF Video Encoding Options Comparison
A comparison of encoding options for swf video is being organized. The comparison will feature side by side encoding of a control clip and samples will be posted so everyone can make their own decision as to the methods capabilities.

Along with the samples, "Wheels" envisions a comprehensive faq to answer many questions that are often repeatedly answered plus the ins and outs or pros and cons of using these techniques.

The comparison will focus on

swf video- such as flix
mx video
and
SV video- sequences in flash (our specialty)

I have contacted all the swf conversion softwares I know of. Fix was in on the thread so (I believe) they have already agreed to participate. I will be encoding the SV sample and we need somebody to encode the MX clip. Someone who can represent the software to its full potential, an mx video expert in other words. If thats you and you want to participate then please visit the below thread and let us know who you are.

the thread is located here.

http://board.flashkit.com/board/show...5&pagenumber=1
[Edited by estudioworks on 08-17-2002 at 02:12 PM]

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This is the same way Flash Encoder does. Yes, but I wanna know how to make it.

BTW: I mean livestream, not video.

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My main concern is the loss of defined edge in the areas of horizontal yellow/black stripes

here's a preview, first visible as straight Quicktime movie and then as flv

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Does anyone have any reviews or info about on-demand, on-line video encoding services? The two I have been able to find are fastencoding.com and heywatch.com...does anyone know of any others? Or have any advice/info regarding the two I have found so far? ...the Fastencoding service seems superior to me so far (with their api and server farm), but I'm worried about reliability and haven't been able to find any reviews.

For some background info, we are creating an online community, where the users can upload videos of different formats (mov, avi, etc) and we want to turn them into high resolution flv files on-the-fly. We are also planning on using Amazon's Simple Storage Service to store the flv files. So, using an on-demand, on-line video encoding service would free my server from all of the computation of converting videos. We will most likely have MANY simultaneous uploads/conversions happening, so some sort of process queue would be necessary.

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Hi,

I have lot’s of video material which I want to put online into a Flash web site.
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Is there a way to force Flash 8 Video Encoder to encode in 16:9 aspect ratio ?
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I haven't touched any Flash in a while, as well as the Video aspect of it. If anyone got any pointers/links to places that directly/almost touch this subject, please do let me know.

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I have several videos created in my NLE and rendered into mpg videos. Some of them I have been able to convert to a Flash Movie in flash, and others I am having problems with. I have some that have no "Video" to encode but has audio to encode. I have some that have "Audio" to encode and no video to encode. If I click on the original movie file, it will play just fine in my windows media player. Is there a way to fix this without having to recreate the movie?

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Hi!
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I don't want to change the XML file because it's created dynamically with PHP and I need strings to be utf-8 encoded so PHP can read them. I've read many articles about saving a utf-8 encoded XML file with PHP, but it seems like there is a bug with PHP. So i decided to remake all the things and now I have to deal with flash.
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I'm new to flash but not new to programming so I bought SitePoint's book The Flash Anthology...

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The problem is that the RSS has Windows-1250 encoding and some characters are not shown correctly when the Flash reads the values to textArea...but if I manually(via ActionScript) enter those letters in textArea they are shown correctly...

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Hello. I recently have been working on a Math tutorial in flash. This tutorial has examples and other things in it. I already have completed the trigonometry and geometrical formula segment. I am now working on the advanced algebra segment, and am working specifically with matrices. WHat I wish to do in this matrix example, is to demonstrate to students real life applications. I wish to have a random mesage entered, of only western letters and all normal characters but no numbers at this point. (I would love to write this for foriegn letters, and languages such as ancient greek but have no idea how to even get flash to recognize these languages). A sample message could be, "flash is fun". What I want to do is set up a system for converting characters to numbers(since f is the 6th letter of the alphabet, we'll say f=6 and so on, spaces wil be 0) so flash is cool=6,12,1,19,8,0,9,19,0,3,15,15,12. Then I want to convert these numbers into 2x1 matrices, so matrix 1 would be {6,12}
matrix 2 would be {1,19} etc. Then I want to multiply each matrix
by

a random 2x2 matrix which has an inverse, or for simplicity we'll say just matrix {2,1}
{1,1}. We then get a totally new code, so matrix 1 now would be 24,18 i believe. THis would end the encoding part of the flash app. Next I want to decode it, so I'd multiply the new code or encoded message by the inverse of the matrix I multiplied matrix 1 by(the inverse would be {1,-1} ).
{-1,2}
This would get me the original matrix 1.

I want the app to translate this matrix to its letter equivalent so matrix one,or 6,12, would be "fl". In this way, students can see how each step is completed and how they might have gone wrong. I realize this would be a hard and complicated script and will gladly give credit for this app to anyone who helps. I believe flash would support this kind of programming, but if not I know java will, so if any of you are fluent in java I could use your help too. When I post thjis, the matricesmight get out of order, so if u need the numbers email me, but in general how would u do this.

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Now, I use an XML to place all my info for a portfolio i'm preparing and with flash, I go fetch that info. Simple and clean, it really does work rather well.

That is, until I check out what info the flash managed to pluck out in the swf...when I take a look at what I wrote in the XML, flash inteprets it as a whole bevy of weird caracters (Ã©â€™).

My flash already has the
Code:
System.useCodepage=true;
and my XML has this
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
as it's encoding...

Did I choose wrong or something? It worked up until a while ago...randomly went out of whack when I tried to use an HTML document to load the .swf...and it stayed that way.

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how can i fix this? in DB (another encoding?), in PHP ou directly in flash?

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http://www.mustardlab.com/developer/...communication/

This is my code:

< ---snip --->

<script type="text/javascript">
function updateTxt(){
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}
</script>
<input type="hidden" name="required[0]" value="_optional_">
<input type="text" name="textinputValues[0]" value="" maxlength="20" />
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< ---snap --->

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Hi,

I'm trying to find the best solution to encode video files uploaded from a website to the server into .flv and produce a thumbnail.

I have found some software called Sothink Video Encoder which does all of this through command line which i think is ideal... it costs $600 though.

Is there a good solution out there?

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I was just wondering if Flash had the ability to encode images to JPEG? If so I could probably pass the image to a flash movie, encode it and then pass it back - or upload it from the flash movie.

Or if that ain't possible, can anyone suggest anything else I could use to encode the image?

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And I can't see the cursor, too.

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in order to evaluate this software, i'm seeking for some documentation (manuals, guide, ...) but all i found is PDF commercial brochure... do someone now where i can find more info ?
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I retrieve the text fields by Request.Form("[name]")
in the ASP page, and the mail is sent to the correct e-mail
address - the problem is that foreign characters such
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I've tried to find help by searchin' for a solution on
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For both questions - here is a http://www.36odyssea.wz.cz/ - I would like to rework this web-page fully to flash. Because this way, it doesn't look good enough. :?

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i downloaded the following video component:
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now that i want to have SOUND in my imported quicktime, too - i use "Sorenson Squeeze" to create swf files from quicktime movies.

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Does anyone have some experience with using squeeze movies AND this video component ??

Thanks a lot for ANY hints !

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i know how to control content being loaded into frames, from within a flash movie (using get url) but, i'm not sure how to go about calling various parts of a flash movie that is situated within a different frame with the html page, from the one it's being called from.

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would it be something like this?

on (release) {

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