Stupid Question? Video Clip

Stupid Video Question
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wha exactly causes the black box in the video area before the flv starts playing?

I should know this...errr and how can I get rid of it if it something I didn't put there...

thanks guys

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Flash Video Stupid Question
I am a complete Flash novice...That being said...I am looking to put Flash on our site, I suppose it could be called a Flash Video, but I do not want the progress bar, start & stop buttons like a regular Flash Movie.

I am looking to get a person speaking on screen about a certain topic. But I want to have it nice and clean like this site: http://www.eccentris.com/ecce.htm

Notice the girl is on a white background and fits perfectly with the site. It's not in a frame or small screen with start and stop buttons. This is exactly what I'm after.

I'f I film someone speaking does Flash take out the background and have other images projected behind them, or do I need a video program to do it from start to finish and just upload a FLA file at the end?

This is truly a dumb question, but I refer to my first sentence.

Thanks for any help anyone can give.

RE

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Stupid Flash Video Question?
Hi,

This might seem like a stupid question, but I can't work out how to make an external flv file stop on the first frame. So I want the video to appear but not play.

There must be a simple way to do this but when I try the video doesnt appear at all until i press the play button.

Thanks in advance

thesquirrel

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Playing A Sound Clip (im Stupid...)
I want the sound to play all the way through but I have my movie broken up into scenes and it always stops at the end of that scene how do i make it play through everything?

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Stupid Movie Clip Won't Work
i have a simple movie clip of a cell phone and a text message blinking on it. when i preview the movie clip in the library it plays fine however when i add it into my flash movie and test it in a browser or inside flash it doesnt work!

is there some simple stupid answer for this??? please help it is holding up a project i'm doing....the hard stuff is done now this crap wont work!!!

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Stupid Q Re: Buttons Not Working Within A Movie Clip
This is one of those things that happens and I rack my brain and overlook something stupid.

I have a MC that contains a few buttons. When I enable simple buttons in FlashMX, the button states function when I am editing the MC.

However, when I export the swf file, or test the file (CTRL+ENTER), the button actions do not work.

It seems to me that this should not be happening.

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AM I STUPID? IS ANYONE Able To Show Me How To Use Smart Clip Checkboxes For Flash 5?
I cannot understand it. Not anywhere is there an explanation of the smart clip check boxes included with flash 5. I have checked the forums and the question HAS been asked but no replies are ever made to this one. Is it all of us that are asking are sooo stupid or is it that nobody worked out how to use them either????
You can find the file I have created at www.successuk.com/ros.fla
as it is too big to attach here.

If ANYONE at all has the answer I would be really grateful

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Call Me Stupid, But .. Button In Movie Clip, ... Root?
I cannot find anywhere nor figure out what seems to me should be simple enough.

If i have a button in a movie clip, and want to use it to affect the main timeline, as in advance to scene 2 or something, what is the proper syntax? _root.nextScene() etc not working.
Thanks in advance!

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How To Make A Movie Clip/container Stupid Question
so i know it's a stupid question and the answer is probebly easy but i just dont know.

so how do i make a movie clip like in the tutorial at http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/transitions2.htm

i just need to know how to make the movie clip because i know how to make a container.

thanx alot.

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How To Make A Movie Clip/container Stupid Question
so i know it's a stupid question and the answer is probebly easy but i just dont know.

so how do i make a movie clip like in the tutorial at http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/transitions2.htm

i just need to know how to make the movie clip because i know how to make a container.

thanx alot.

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Video Clip In A Movie Clip With Its Own Audio?
Hi, I have a general query and need to know if it's possible or not - if not, I'll have to figure something else out.

I have a user-controlled masked movieclip inside my flash movie. Within this controlled movieclip is two layers: one for audio, one for images. However, I would like to be able to add an external videoclip on the images timeline for a certain number of frames. Furthermore, since the audio is a person speaking about the videoclip, I would like to sync it up to the audio frames so that they'll be talking, then at, say frame 5, the videoclip starts playing, then the videoclip stops playing at frame 100 or whenever they stop speaking about it.

Now, I know this can be done with images because thats what Im currently doing. For the videoclip can you just do a movieclip for it and then run the clip beginning at a certain frame and have it stop at another frame? Or does the videoclip goes in some special new component designed for imported videoclips??

Anything to help get me started --- I did a search on the forum and couldn't find anything. I need to know ahead of time because right now I'm still piecing the videoclip together in Final Cut and won't have time to play around a lot in Flash.

Thanks!!
Amanda

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Stupid Question Coming From Stupid Newb...
Yeah, I know this is probably the stupidest question you're ever going to here, but I'm desperate and I can't find out anywhere, so as embarassing as it is, this is my last resort.

How do you increase or decrease the thickness of lines in Flash MX?

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Stupid Workspace Changing After I Save It (Or Stupid Me)
I have a dual-monitor setup and I have my timeline, stage, and properties panel on one monitor. That's all fine.

On the other monitor, I have the actions panel in one group and about 3 panels grouped into another group. The actions panel takes up the left 2/3 of the screen and the other panels take up the right 1/3 of the screen. That works fine.

I want to switch the actions panel with the other group of panels, so that the actions is on the right 2/3 of the screen and the other group of panels are on the left 1/3 of the screen. Problem is when I save my workspace layout, it somehow defaults the actions to the left side of teh screen and the other panels to the right side of the screen! It's driving me crazy. Anyone have any tips? Run into similar problems?

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Stupid Question,,, But Feeling Stupid
why wont " ' " show up in my text which is dynamically imported from an html formated text file.

i know that " means " but what is a single quote?

helllppp

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Stupid Employer, Stupid Question
hey there. my current employer currently has a header on an html page with a banner inside it. it looks like crap but his "web guys" have told him that the banner must stay in the exact place that it is otherwise it will destroy his flux capacitor or something along those lines. so im stuck trying to design a flash header for this guy with an animated gif banner inside of it. kinda like the gif banner is the hole in the donut. i guess my question is how do i leave the hole in the donut blank for the gif to be tossed into it without having to make 8 "sliced" flash movies that work together? sorry and i know theres an easy way to do this, i just havent touched flash in a few months and im rusty as all tarnation. thanks in advance

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Stupid Question Hopefully Not Stupid Answers
I have put a trace on a variable that i use as a counter in a loop.
Everytime the loop in initialized it shows "undefined" before counting.
Can I ignore this or will it have some future impact on my work????

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Stupid, Stupid, Stupid Question
But I need to know.

I'm learning actionscript.

How come sometimes the script is placed in ( ) and sometimes in [ ] what does each mean?


ex. (if move ==1)

or _root.Array [_root.arraysize]

thank you

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Video Clip
Hi all,
Is there any way to perform the trace bitmap function on a video clip in MX? Or any way to achieve a similar effect i.e. making the video images into solid colours?
Will appreciate any help...thanx...

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Sig With Video Clip
can anyone tell me how to make a video clip for a sig i know there are websites where you can download game trailers which you can use on sigs which would be ideal.but i followed a tut and it never worked out for me after hours of my time resizing every frame all 30 to the exact same width and height,is there a tut anywhere and also is it possible to use video that you have of your own for a sig,any help would be great as i have sigs i would like to try this out on.

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Best Way To End A Video Clip
I have a short video clip (imported Quicktime file) as part of a flash file which I don't want to loop. I converted it into a movie clip and then I have it fade to an alpha of 0% after it plays. On the timeline after that, I have instered a keyframe and then deleted the movie clip on that keyframe. Is that the best way to go about this or is there something else I should be doing?

Thanks

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Video Clip
beginner's question - can I import a MPEG-2 video file into Flash (i have Flash 8) and turn it into a flash video file that can be inserted (using dreamweaver) into a WEB page ?

sorry if it's a daft question but i'm acomplete beginner
many thanks

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Help On Video Clip.........
I need to insert movie clip in my flash page and it will play in the flash page when I mouseover it, stop when I mouseleave.... Is it possible? Can any1 tell mi how to do it..... Thanx first.......... ~hitsuji =p

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Best Way To End A Video Clip
I have a short video clip as part of a flash file which I don't want to loop. I converted it into a movie clip and then I have it fade to an alpha of 0% after it plays. On the timeline after that, I have instered a keyframe and then deleted the movie clip on that keyframe. Is that the best way to go about this or is there something else I should be doing?

Thanks

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Video Clip
Hi
Im trying to get some video clips into my project, and i wonder what format they need to be, and how do i get them in to my project?
Also, is there a quit command, to shut down a projector?
Paul

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Video Clip
Hi Guys,

I have 3 different video clips to put on a same webpage so when it loads I do not want all 3 clips playing at the same time, how can I do it? Is there a flash sample for that?


Thank you.


Bob

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Help On Video Clip.........
I need to insert movie clip in my flash page and it will play in the flash page when I mouseover it, stop when I mouseleave.... Is it possible? Can any1 tell mi how to do it..... Thanx first.......... ~hitsuji =p

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Advertising Video Clip
Hello, my name is Isaac.
I haven't posted here before, I don't think.
I'll jump right into it:
A web site which I am creating was given free ad space. My web site is about gaming. In March there will be a magazine competely on DVD based on gaming and the manager, through my staff member, had given my web site free advertising time on it. I could do anything from report on some news or just make a video fooling around. As an amateur webmaster I have never done a video before. I have access to a video camera if I need to do a report, but what about the graphics, the flashy introduction, and whatnot? I don't have much experience in this and I don't know much about Flash.
Someone told me that Movies could be done in Flash so I came here. The magazine will manufacture its first DVDs for its subscribers beginning March. I have to get the video done by the end of mid february. Is there anyone that has experience in this that could tell me where to start? I have a lot of free time on my hands and a budget so nothing is impossible.

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SOUND [on/off] And Video Clip [pls Some Help]
go here http://www26.brinkster.com/dplasma/station.html

U will see sound clip near help/exit button

When u click on it Sound stops but I dont know how to replace clip to another one where BARS stop aswell!!!

So what I need is when u click on sound button BARS stop and Sound Stop
and one u click again Sound will start and BARS will start to move too !!!


Thanks in Advance!!!

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Import Video Clip?
Im wondering how to take a short video clip (ie. .mov) and import it into my flash movie. When I tried this it appeared to have worked however when I saved the movie as a .swf that is when the video clip vanished.

Im a nOOb to this so please take it easy on me. Im looking to add a few small video clips to some text effects...whats the best advice for me?

Thanks

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Need A Video Clip Sample.
Hi people!
I am finishing the music for a sort of video that I would like to do in flash. Actually I have the music (as I said) and lots of pictures (natural landscape) wich I would like to join in a friendly way.
Question:
Has anybody seen a video that shows pictures wich I can see so as to pick up some ideas on how to show these pictures?
Any video clip would do anyway.

Thanks a lot in advance.

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I already posted this at Coffee Lounge, sorry if you already read it. I just dont know where is the right place for posting it.

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Reverse Video Clip
Is it possible, to on completion of a video clip to call an action to run it in reverse so it loops that way instead of going to the end and starting at the beginning, i know i could just do everything in reverse and add it, but that is alot of work for one, and for two it will make the file size bigger. Thanks for any help.

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Link To A Video Clip
hi all

i need to link a video clip from flash ...
how do i do it .... the video clip may be mpg,avi,mov etc...

i need the video clip to play from the CD directly in an external video player

IT SHOULD NOT ASK TO SAVE IN DISC

i need help urgently
i am using flash 5

flash prashi

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Pausing A Video Clip
hi everone hopefully someone can help with this. I need the action script to pause an avi file i imported into a flash file. it needs to pause on the last frame. Can anyone help?

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Video Clip Timeline
Hey,
Newbie to forum/site so please excuse if this has been covered before.
I'm looking for a tutorial on creating a timeline slider for a video clip. EG: Once loaded, I can slide the marker to where-ever on the video timeline and play from there.

Found a bunch of some...10/10 Website...but think these draggable sliders apply to still images rather than moving images.

Any suggestions..help...
Remy

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Movie Clip To Video?
I have a movie clip in a scene I need to convert to an .avi or quicktime...but I can't seem to just export the MC...it exports the whole scene...


anyone know how to do this??

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Video Clip Navigation
I have four movie clips each clip has a kind of zoom in effect and zoom out effect so I have eight clips.

I have four buttons on stage and I`m stuck with how to script it so that when you click on clip one it plays the in video and when you click on another button it plays the out clip on video one then moves onto the new video in clip.


Please help the logic of this is killin me, i`m sure its dead easy.

Thanks
Simon

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Ending A Video Clip
When making a new symbol (movie clip) in MX 2004, i was wondering how you could make the movie clip stop at the end of it's timeline as opposed to looping.

Thanks in advance.

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How Do You Play A Video Clip?
I have been trying to get a movie clip to play through once but it wont play and it just stays still nomater how many frames I add to the backround. please help me.

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Using AS3 To Easout A Video Clip
Hello all, I have created a SWF that is going to be used as a launchpad to allow visitors to choose what department of a site they want to view.

I have created a basic launchpad and everything so far is looking good.

I have created 4 distinct movie clip triggers (right now plain gradients) that when mouseovered, load specific FLV files relating to their department.

When someone mouseaways from one of the triggers, the video stops and rewinds. It is abrupt and I would prefer a fadeout instead.

However, I don't know how I can do this. I am aware of how to use easing through AS3 via Tweens, but I this won't work for a video file...or will it?

Here is my actionscript so far. I imagine it can be cleaned up (seems like it is overly long for what I am doing):


Code:
var nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
nc.connect(null);

// ------------------- CREATE BIKE VIDEO AND POSITION
var ns_bike:NetStream = new NetStream(nc);
ns_bike.addEventListener(AsyncErrorEvent.ASYNC_ERROR, asyncErrorHandler);
function asyncErrorHandler(event:AsyncErrorEvent):void
{
// ignore error
}

var vidbike:Video = new Video();
vidbike.attachNetStream(ns_bike);
vidbike.x = 430; // moves the video to the right edge
vidbike.y = 110; // moves the video to the bottom edge (350-240)
addChild(vidbike);

bike_mc.buttonMode = true;

// ------------------- CREATE PAINTBALL VIDEO AND POSITION
var ns_paintball:NetStream = new NetStream(nc);
ns_paintball.addEventListener(AsyncErrorEvent.ASYNC_ERROR, asyncErrorHandler);
var vidpaintball:Video = new Video();
vidpaintball.attachNetStream(ns_paintball);
vidpaintball.x = 430; // moves the video to the right edge
vidpaintball.y = 110; // moves the video to the bottom edge (350-240)
addChild(vidpaintball);

paintball_mc.buttonMode = true;

// ------------------- CREATE SNOWBOARD VIDEO AND POSITION
var ns_snowboard:NetStream = new NetStream(nc);
ns_snowboard.addEventListener(AsyncErrorEvent.ASYNC_ERROR, asyncErrorHandler);
var vidsnowboard:Video = new Video();
vidsnowboard.attachNetStream(ns_snowboard);
vidsnowboard.x = 430; // moves the video to the right edge
vidsnowboard.y = 110; // moves the video to the bottom edge (350-240)
addChild(vidsnowboard);

snowboard_mc.buttonMode = true;

// ------------------- CREATE XC SKI VIDEO AND POSITION
var ns_xcski:NetStream = new NetStream(nc);
ns_xcski.addEventListener(AsyncErrorEvent.ASYNC_ERROR, asyncErrorHandler);
var vidxcski:Video = new Video();
vidxcski.attachNetStream(ns_xcski);
vidxcski.x = 430; // moves the video to the right edge
vidxcski.y = 110; // moves the video to the bottom edge (350-240)
addChild(vidxcski);

xcski_mc.buttonMode = true;

// ------------------- CONTROL VIDEOS

function playbikeHandler(event:MouseEvent):void
{
vidbike.alpha = 100;
ns_bike.play("launchpad_bike.flv");
}

function stopbikeHandler(event:MouseEvent):void
{
// Pause the stream and move the playhead back to
// the beginning of the stream.
ns_bike.pause();
ns_bike.seek(0);
vidbike.alpha = 0;
}

bike_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, playbikeHandler);
bike_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, stopbikeHandler);

function playpaintballHandler(event:MouseEvent):void
{
vidpaintball.alpha = 100;
ns_paintball.play("launchpad_paintball.flv");
}

function stoppaintballHandler(event:MouseEvent):void
{
// Pause the stream and move the playhead back to
// the beginning of the stream.
ns_paintball.pause();
ns_paintball.seek(0);
vidpaintball.alpha = 0;
}

paintball_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, playpaintballHandler);
paintball_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, stoppaintballHandler);

function playsnowboardHandler(event:MouseEvent):void
{
vidsnowboard.alpha = 100;
ns_snowboard.play("launchpad_snowboard.flv");
}

function stopsnowboardHandler(event:MouseEvent):void
{
// Pause the stream and move the playhead back to
// the beginning of the stream.
ns_snowboard.pause();
ns_snowboard.seek(0);
vidsnowboard.alpha = 0;
}

snowboard_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, playsnowboardHandler);
snowboard_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, stopsnowboardHandler);

function playxcskiHandler(event:MouseEvent):void
{
vidxcski.alpha = 100;
ns_xcski.play("launchpad_xcski.flv");
}

function stopxcskiHandler(event:MouseEvent):void
{
// Pause the stream and move the playhead back to
// the beginning of the stream.
ns_xcski.pause();
ns_xcski.seek(0);
vidxcski.alpha = 0;
}

xcski_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, playxcskiHandler);
xcski_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, stopxcskiHandler);

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How Do I Go To The Next Frame After A Video Clip?
Hi,

I am using Flash CS3.

I put a "stop" on the frame the video is on, if I did not do this then the video did not play. Now it plays, but then stops after the video. I do however want the movie to go to the next frame after the video has played, can you please copy paste the code I need to place there, and explain where to put the code.

Thanks.

anders

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Video Clip In Timeline
this is prob something very simple but i'm pretty new to flash so i cant figure it out....

i imported a video clip to flash and I only want it to play when the user clicks the "play" button.

the prob is:
1) the skin doesn't show up.
2) the video clip starts to play right away.

can anyone help me please???

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Preloader Video Clip
I am working on making a preloader that plays a movie clip as it loads. Its basically a movie of an old school elevator that has the pointer going down as the elevator goes down. I want to use that as my preloader, but I dont know how to control the video clip like that. So basically I want the movie clip to play as fast as the rest of the site loads. I'm not sure how to speed up/slow down the clip based on the speed the file is being loaded. I dont even know where to start. I'm not sure if I can start with a standard preloader and just edit that or if I need to create one from scratch. I am new to flash and dont know much about preloaders.

If anyone could give me some help or resources to look at that would be super awesome.

Thanks,
Josh

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Video Clip Question
I am importing a bunch of quicktime video clips. When i import them, i embed the files inside the flash movie. How would i import a clip, and have the controls (stop, play, pause, slow, etc.) readily available? I am new at this so any advice would be very appreciated. Thanks.

Chris Reynolds

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Embeded Video Clip
Hello folks,
I would like embed a video of about 270 frames onto my webpage. I used a Quicktime file which had no compression on it and was perfectly sharp. I imported it to Flash with settings: 150 keyframes, bandwidth on maximum and quality 100. When I had placed it on stage it looks like crap. Quality is gone, specially parts when video is fast, like whitewater kayaking. Is there any trick how to keep the original quality of the video? Mabye in settings , or make it into different format than quick time, etc. Thank you so much for any advice or input.
Jaroush





























Edited: 02/05/2007 at 08:37:31 AM by Jaroush

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Problem With Video Clip
hello all ... i have a video clip that i want to play in my main movie but it is too big in size.... and i wanted to know if i when i called it it would open in a separate quicktime screen?.... this is not in a browser but is for a presentation!

hope that makes sense

many thanks
shrav

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Rollover Video Clip
im having trouble getting a video clip that i imported into flash play on rollover and not play when the mouse isn't on it. could anybody help me out, please?

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Video Clip Issues
My application is a Flash movie that is displaying video clips (.swf file) using loadMovie(URL, layer, method); among other Flash objects.
It works fine from the projector and when I double click the ".html" file at the file browser.
 It works almost fine when contacting the same ".html" file using IE and Apache server. The same clip may sometimes not be loaded, loaded and stopped at some frame or played correctly. In any case it takes a long time for the movie to start since it is loaded and afterwards played.

My questions:
1. How can I stream video from a web server - what is required on the server and client side?
I can use any recommended server.
2. Why is the system acts in a non consistent way?
3. Are there an recommendations for service providers for hosting such an  application (Flash + streaming).

Many thanks

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Masking A LoadMovie Video Clip.
I would love to mask a movie clip that I am loading a swf file into using loadMovie. Is this possible? Currently I have a mask layer and the target MC on a layer beneath the mask, but the loaded video seems to just ignore the mask.

Thanks for any suggestions.

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Streaming Video Into A Movie Clip
I have a rather large video and i would like it to stream so my users dont have to sit back for 10mins and watch the % bar go up... i can stream a mp3 with out a problem, but i am having problems with mpeg files and getting them to load into the correct place, and ideas / help would be great!

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