SWF Plays OK In Browser, But Needs "step Forward" In Standalone Player
Hi All
I'm new to flash (this is my first week). I've done all the lessons and the first 2 tutorials. I'm prototyping a web site for a friend of mine who's an interior designer and I have a problem either with layers or action script.
I made a movie that tweens from before, after and furnished states of an apartment refurbishment. that all worked OK. Then I added a loading indicator it runs fine in a browser (ie5.5), but when I use "Test Movie" or run the swf in the external player, it stops on the first frame of the big movie. However, if I open the published HTML file, it runs from start to end.
I'm still trying to get my head around the best way to organize such a project, so I wonder if someone can advise.
I've attached the fla file
So if you'd care to help, can you tell me where the problem may be and if I've organized things well
thanks in advance
Mark
FlashKit > Flash Help > Flash MX
Posted on: 10-07-2002, 10:12 AM
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Swf Plays In Browser But Not In Standalone Player
So, I posted another thread about this, but it took me a while to narrow down what was happening, so I thought I would make a new post.
What the movie is:
An swf that loads an h.264 video (and then the video triggers other stuff to happen along the way)
What's wrong:
- Plays on 2 of the 5 computers I've tested it on, but not the other 3.
- It will play on the other 3 if I export the html and load it in the browser
- It will play on on the other 3 in the standalone flash player if I replace the h.264 video with an .flv
Other info:
- All computers have the same versions of Flash Player, Quicktime, etc.
- The video itself plays in Quicktime on all the computers (so it's not a codec issue)
So...what's so different about the flash player in the browser from the standalone player? How do I get this working properly?
Slow Framerate When SWF Plays In Browser Vs Standalone / Preview
I'm hoping someone can help me with this one. I already searched the forums and some others have had this problem too but noone's been able to figure out what's causing it.
link to the swf embedded in browser
Click on that link and hover your mouse over the center 122 MAIN button in the center, notice the speed of the ripple.
direct link to SWF, right click and save as
Now, download the SWF and play it back in the standalone player, notice the speed of the ripple as you hover your mouse over the 122 MAIN button.
I'm running XP w/SP1 and IE 6.0.2800.1106xpsp1.020828-1920. The embedded videos were created using Squeeze and are in FLV format.
Hmmm, that might be it. Gonna test a different format.
Any ideas are GREATLY appreciated!!!
EDIT: Embedded video format makes no difference. The 2nd test, I imported the AVI file directly using the built-in Sorenson encoder and the ripple still plays slower when viewed in the browser.
Playback In Browser Slower Then In Standalone Player?
I realize that this isn't exactly a scripting issue, but I haven't been able to resolve this issue.
My swf (produced by V5) plays back remarkably slower from within the browser vs. playback from the standalone player.
The movies frame rate is set to a rather high 60FRS. Playback from browser looks more like 40FPS.
Facts:
file size of swf - 5.60kb (small)
Move length - 40 frames, though it is comprised of a number of MC's linked via script.
Demand on system resources during playback - uses no more than 10% (from both browser and also standalone Flash player)
All testing is done from same machine
If movie frame rate is increased to 120FPS the playback from browser does increase some.
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stop();
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");
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}
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Quite frustrating. Any thoughts?
Attach Code
public class actionscripttest extends Sprite
{
private var fps:Number;
private var fpstext:TextField;
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private var frameCounter:Number = 0;
private var msPassed:Number = 0;
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{
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format.color = 0xFF0000;
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addChild(fpstext);
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frameCounter++;
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frameCounter = 0;
}
}
}
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I've run in to a plethora of problems trying to finish up a movie I've been working on, and I think the most important one is this:
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Hello,
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Could someone have a look and listen and see if you have any ideas?
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Thanks in advance...
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I was told maybe interval coding....but not sure what I am looking for....nothing appears to jump out at me.
I will upload the .fla source code and maybe someone will see something I dont- Or you can check out what it is doing on the website www.peeler.ca the player will start on its own as soon as you get in the main page of the website.
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I have created a slider with the following code:
stop();
//DRAGGER1 CODE
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Slider That Plays Movieclip Forward And Backword
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stop();
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Reversing Movieclip To Play Backwards At Same Speed As It Plays Forward..
Hi all sorry for my spam post i just typed all this once and it didnt show up!!!!
here we go again..
I am new to flash and am making a page selector for the my site..it has two buttons one next and one prev. when you hit the next button it plays an animation swaps graphic to the page two graphic behind a layer to hide the swap then pops back up with the new number on it. press it again and it moves down the movie clip playing to the next stop point and showing new page three graphic.. this all works but now i want the prev button to make it so i can go back a forth between stop points in the clip, playing the movie not frame by frame but as it does when played forwards..when each new page number pops up a select button is also animated to show up with each pages link so that when say you scroll through to page 2 then hit select it goes off and loads that url for page 2 in an i frame leaving the selector at the top of the page..but i cant seam to get my url to open in an iframe in dreamweaver...am i doing this all wrong or is there a simpler way of doing this.. i must say that the animation is a rotation of the graphic is drops down like a clapper board behind a mask changes number with swap graphic then pops up again with the new page number graphic and link...
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I want to show the movie step by step by clicking the next button. Inside each frame, many movie clips are generated dynamically at runtime, and they can be played interactively.
I achieves the step-by-step display of those frames by adding another layer with the action stop(). But I got one trouble: all the movie clips from previous frames are accumalted. How to remove the accumulation from previous frames?
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I need to fix this immediately.
Your help would be greatly appreciated.
- zcx
Urgent Help: How To Remove The Accumaltion When Show Movies Step By Step With Buttons
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I need to fix this immediately.
Your help would be greatly appreciated.
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Testing In Flash V. In Standalone/browser
Last edited by depth : 2006-04-25 at 21:27.
i'll try to simplify the situation best as i can...i have one swf that loads a bunch of other swfs, with a MovieClipLoader. when one swf is loaded, the mcl's onLoadInit begins the load of the next swf, and so on, until they're all loaded.
once the last swf loads, i try to access some properties of a certain one of them. this works fine when testing from flash, but when i run the swf standalone or in a browser, i cannot access the movieclip into which the certain swf was loaded. i cannot read properties on that clip, nor can i create new ones. a for-in loop returns absolutely nothing. the clip *does* exist, but it's in some strange state in which i cannot touch it in any way. i can't even access built-in props.
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ANY thoughts much appreciated.
thanks...
(edit)
further testing reveals:
i am able to access the mcs that hold all the other loaded clips. it's only one mc that acts as though it is an empty and unaccessible variable.
(edit)
it is definitely related to the swf i'm loading into the unaccessible mc that makes it unaccessible; i've tried both loading a different swf into the clip, and loading the swf into a different clip. loading a different swf into the clip causes no problems. loading the offending swf into a different clip reproduces the problem.
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The Good Part:
What i'm trying to do is load a text file into a dynamic text field that uses up and down buttons to scroll through the text.
So far i can only get it to work from the browser when i access the ".swf" directly.
(Meaning: http://www.mysite.com/file.swf)
When I do this it works fine.
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The Bad Part:
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I really don't understand why it works when i access the file directly, but when i put it on a webpage it does nothing.
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I am currently using flash to create an electronic press kit. In that, i have 2 links to youtube (since embedding the videos was not an option, making the file too large), and one link to yousendit for the viewer to be able to download a pdf file.
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Safari error:
Adobe flash player has stopped a potentially unsafe operation.
The following local application of your computer or network:
(location of swf on harddisk)
is trying to communicate with this internet-enabled location:
youtube.com
To let this application communicate with the internet, click SETTINGS.
You must restart this application after changing your settings.
Of course i did that, and it didnt happen.
My question is however, even if this is a simple security issue/setting within the browser, is there any way to get around this? Because when sending this press kit out, the last thing i want is for the viewer to have to take the time to change their browser settings and try to get this to work and all that stuff.
Any help would be appreciated.
You can also download this swf at the following link:
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.ph...661F585ACE0521
Launch Of Standalone Player
I recently published a CD-based Flash presentation on the Mac platform, though I published it as an .exe file for PC in the standalone player. My questions is this:
Does anyone know how to get the standalone player to launch as soon as the CD is inserted into the drive. This would be a neat bonus for the end users, since some of them would be challenged to find the "My Computer" icon on the desktop, let alone navigate their way to the file icon.
Your help is much appreciated.
Regards,
Jeremy Bagott
New Standalone Player Is Coming
I just heard from a MM representative (thanks J.W.!) that a new STANDALONE player will be released in the next 2-3 weeks. This will supposedly fix the "streaming issue" on standalone players that several people (including myself) have stumbled into. This is the issue that is most prevelant on CDROM applications that load external swf files into a main movie and cause the player to lock up when a new swf is loaded. There is no beta version available-I already asked. If I hear more I will post it here.
AzF
Close Standalone Player
Hallo there,
I´ve two simple questions:
Is there a way to close the Standalone Player with a command?
Can I deactivate the esc-key?
Thanks
Dirk
Aut Fulllscreen In Standalone Player
Hi all,
Does anyone know how to make a flash movie automatically play fullscreen in the standalone player?
What i'm doing is making a movie into an .exe file and putting it on a cd, the cd autoruns the flash .exe file and I want to make it go fullscreen, i've seen it before, even on some websites. Anyone know?
Thanks in advance,
BA.
Standalone Player Maximized From Cd Inf
I am trying to make a catalog and distribute them on CD's
Using the flash Standalone player. The autorun.inf on my Cd
is:
[autorun]
OPEN=catalog.exe
but I want it to open in a maximized window or in full screen.
is this possible? please help me.... thanks.... Pinky_and_the_brain
Standalone Flash Player
I'm trying to find a standalone Flash player 7 on the Macromedia website. Anyone know where it is, or do they no longer offer it.
Standalone Player Issue
Hi,
okay, say I made a standalone exe.
Say theres a button in there that has a getURL command to download a pic off my server when I press it.
Say I want to download the pic INTO an empty movieclip which is also in my standalone exe.
Why cant I do that?
When I click on the button, it opens a browser window with the pic i want. But I want the pic to be fed into the empty movieclip in my exe, not in a seperate browser.
What would the script be to download it into my exe?
I tried
on(release){
getURL("http://www.mysite.com/my.jpg", holder1);
}
and
on(release){
_root.holder1.getURL("http://www.mysite.com/my.jpg");
}
but this doesnt work at all...strange
could someone please let me know why not?
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