Flash :: Embedded Videos...

Preloaders For Embedded Videos (.mov)?
Hey everyone,

i'm making a project CD for which i'll be using flash. One of the items i have is a menu scene laid in 3d studio max and a .mov render of the camera zooming into an object. My problem is how can i make sure the animation does not stutter.. like preload it or something before it begins. I'm not sure how to preload an SWF that contains embedded video files and can't seem to find any help on this.

If this is doable , then i can preload the animations just before they start (and it should be a quick preload from the cd as opoosed to the web.. its an 6 MB file or so) so a second or two. Infact i dont even want it to seem like htere is a preloader involved. It will be an insvisible one since it should be fast.

Or is there a better way to solve this problem? Thank you guys!

Embedded Videos Keep Looping
Hi!
I have some embedded videos that look great in a swf, problem is that they keep looping. Thank you!

Simple Q Regarding Embedded Videos
Hi,

I'm slogging my way through a project right now, and have hit a snag. As you'll see, I'm new to the Flash world, so pardon the ignorance of my questions. Here goes:

I'm playing two embedded clips, one right after another, and then looping back from the end of the second clip to the beginning of the first clip. Rinse, repeat.

I've inserted two new movie clip symbols to my stage and have embedded each video to its own movie clip. So far so good. But a problem occurs when I try to do the following:

At the last frame of the first clip, place "_parent.play();"

At the last frame of the second clip, place "_parent.gotoAndPlay("firstClip");" -- sans quotes, of course.

What's making me pull what little left of my hair I've got out is that every time I try and isolate the last frame of each clip by keyframing, the videos loop themselves >

If I place a "stop();" command at the last frame, I assume I have to attach the command to a keyframe, and in doing so, I innadvertantly load the first frame of the video in question again. So it looks like this:

[here are frames 1 to 300 of firstClip][here's frame 1 of firstClip again with a stop command which blinks into view when this video is played]

If I just attach a command to an empty rectangle frame, the command appears on the beginning keyframe and effects the whole movie. No good.

Clearly, I've got some serious issues with understanding how frames interract with keyframes, how to select frames to create keyframes without looping a movie, how to isolate frames I want, etc. And here I come from a video world where keyframes are pretty intuitive -- in Flash they're an altogether ugly beast that's kicking my ***.

I've been looking over the copy of the FlashMX 2004 Bible I've got here, searching through the video chapter for my answer, but I'm guessing this is the kind of generalized issue buried deep within the beginning chapters. I'd read the whole book if it weren't for a looming deadline. So I've come here in the hopes of appealing to you...

Please help -- thanks

Making Embedded Videos Into Buttons.
Hi , Im not sure if this is actually possible because as far as i've tried i've had no luck. I have 9 embedded videos in my library. What i want to do with these videos is first have a preloader for all 9 videos to load, then have the first video play in a loop, when this first video is clicked on then the second video pops up and plays in a loop until clicked on so that the third video plays.... and so on. It supposed to look as if they are different pages with different videos but i want it to be 1 single swf. So i can I can have it dload as one single piece instead of having a preload for each video.
I have tried using scenes with no luck because i want each video to loop until its clicked on.
Making the videos a button doesn't work either because when i export or test the swf nothing shows up, as if there was no "button/movie" on the main panel.

Im sure what to do at this point. Any help would be definitely appreciated.

Thanks

[F8] Getting Embedded Videos To Replay In Slide Presentation
Hello there,
This is a question about my first ever flash project in the world ever......

(THIS SECTION IS PROBABLY SKIPPABLE IF YOU ARE IN A HURRY, SORRY BIT OF A WAFFLER)Using Flash slide presentation, i've made a map of a hospital's operating theatres floor. The idea of the map is that when you click on a room from the above view, you zoom into that room and it tells you what the room's function and who runs that department(the maps purpose is a quick visual test for new nurses etc to get oriented to their workplace).
(RELEVENT BIT....I THINK)
-The Presentation page is a movie clip of a title page (information of who did the work on the project pops up etc) this is followed by an embedded video(avi)of the map popping up in 3d-All avi's imported from 3d max-
actions on this page are gotoandplay & stop.

-The first slide is the buttons that navigate to other slides

-The rest of the slides each contain embedded videos(again avi's) of map view zooming into room. button on each slide goes to slide one (buttons page)
actions for this again gotoandplay and stop.

When I publish this it works alright but I can't get the animations(in the slides) to play more than once .it just stays on last frame until I press the button.

That's it .like I said this is my first foray into Flash so I'm putting every bit of info I can think of into my question.

I know it something really obvious but it's stumped me!

Thanks

Should I upload example? It's big though because it's aimed at cd rom not web

Getting Embedded Videos To Replay In Slide Presentation
Hello there,
This is a question about my first ever flash project in the world ever......

(THIS SECTION IS PROBABLY SKIPPABLE IF YOU ARE IN A HURRY, SORRY BIT OF A WAFFLER)Using Flash slide presentation, i've made a map of a hospital's operating theatres floor. The idea of the map is that when you click on a room from the above view, you zoom into that room and it tells you what the room's function and who runs that department(the maps purpose is a quick visual test for new nurses etc to get oriented to their workplace).
(RELEVENT BIT....I THINK)
-The Presentation page is a movie clip of a title page (information of who did the work on the project pops up etc) this is followed by an embedded video(avi)of the map popping up in 3d-All avi's imported from 3d max-
actions on this page are gotoandplay & stop.

-The first slide is the buttons that navigate to other slides

-The rest of the slides each contain embedded videos(again avi's) of map view zooming into room. button on each slide goes to slide one (buttons page)
actions for this again gotoandplay and stop.

When I publish this it works alright but I can't get the animations(in the slides) to play more than once .it just stays on last frame until I press the button.

That's it .like I said this is my first foray into Flash so I'm putting every bit of info I can think of into my question.

I know it something really obvious but it's stumped me!

Thanks

Should I upload example? It's big though because it's aimed at cd rom not web

Auto Thumbnailing Embedded Flash Videos
I searched around but was unable to find anything. I'm not sure if it's because I'm not searching the right thing or people haven't been setting this up.

Is there a way to automatically capture screenshots from embedded videos?

Like when you embed a YouTube, Google Video video on your site, are you able to somehow auto grab the screenshot from video you just embedded. I know there are APIs that Youtube and other services offered. We're looking for something we can build locally and cap while still embedding the videos.

Not sure if that makes sense. Any info would be great.

Quick Refresher.. Controlling Embedded Videos?
Hi guys

I've imported a FLV (tried avi files als) video into my flash project, and then placed that video file into an MC as Graphic

In the timeline i have 50 frames of that MC w/ embedded video... and i selected:

Play Once, First Frame 100

in the authoring environment, moving the timline from frame 1 to 50 shows the right part of the video being played..

however, when exported into SWF, the video file insists to play from FRAME 1..

tried so many things.. cant seem to make it work.. can you guys make this work?

What im trying to do really is embed 1 video into my flash document, and play parts of that video in a different sequence via Graphic Properties (Playones, start frame xx)

Thanks

BEST Flash Video Compressor For High Quality Videos (TotsTV.org Videos
Hello everyone, I manage the Toys for Tots TotsTV.org Web site (at http://TotsTV.org) for the U.S. Marine Corps Toys for Tots foundation (the national children's charity). At http://TotsTV.org we feature a number of high quality family-friendly videos. All of the content on TotsTV.org is in Flash format, including the games and music, but the videos are a real problem for us and I wonder if anyone has advice on how best to solve the issue?

The problem is that although the video quality (size and resolution) is good, the videos are still very large (from 25MB to 35MB each!) and as a result most people at home can't view them. Our site stats show that thousands of people are abruptly leaving TotsTV.org once they try to view the videos, so the current solution is actually driving people away from this non-profit children's charity site!

Clearly we need to re-encode the videos (originals are in AVI format) using a better Flash compression tool. We've been using "Swish Video 2" from SwishZone, and we like the image quality but the file sizes are just too large. Are there better tools that we should use instead?

For TotsTV we need to keep the dimensions and visual quality of the videos the same as we have now (high quality overall), but we really (REALLY!) need to reduce the file sizes to something more reasonable that a home user can download in timely fashion.

Any advice, pointers or direction you could give me would be a great help to me personally and the U.S. Marine Corps Toys for Tots foundation. Thank you very much for your help!

Barbara Mikolajczak
Manager, TotsTV.org
U.S. Marine Corps Toys for Tots Foundation

Dynamic Textfield - Embedded Font - Embedded Characters Problem
Hi everyone,
In AS in flash 8, i'm doing the following : a font "Garamond" in my library,creating a textfielda textformat that is used on my textfieldi define the characters that should be embedded...
This last point doesn't seem to work...
This is my code (you can also check my fla) :

--
var myFormat = new TextFormat();
myFormat.font = "Garamond";
myFormat.size = 20;
myFormat.color = "0xFFFFFF";

createEmptyMovieClip("myContainer",10);

myContainer.createTextField("myText", 11, 0,0,400,500);
myContainer.myText.border=true;
myContainer.myText.autoSize = true;
myContainer.myText.html = true;

_root.myContainer.myText.embeddedCharacters = "ęąłńśźćóĘĄŁŃŚĆŻÓ";
myContainer.myText.htmlText = "test characters : : ęąłńśźćóĘĄŁŃŚĆŻÓ" ;

myContainer.myText.selectable = false;
myContainer.myText.wordWrap = true;
myContainer.myText.embedFonts = true;
myContainer.myText.setTextFormat(myFormat) ;

--
I was also trying with the following :

myContainer.myText.useDeviceFonts = true;

But without problem (otherwise I wouldn't email here, huh?)

Can someone tell me what i'm doing wrong that my embeddedCharacters don't seem to work?

Thanks in advance!
Greetz,
Dzjoepke

How Do You Define Which Character Set Gets Embedded With A Font Embedded In The Library (i.e. Korean)?
I have project that uses a shared fonts. The fonts are all contained in a single swf ("fonts.swf"), are embedded in that swf's library and are set to export for actionscript and runtime sharing.

The text in the project is dynamic and is loaded in from external XML files. The text is formatted via styles contained in a CSS object.

This project needs to be localized into 20 or so different languages.

Everything works great with one exception: I canâ€™t figure out how to set which character set gets exported for runtime sharing. i.e. I want to create a fonts.swf that contains Korean characters, change the XML based text to Korean and have the text display correctly.

Iâ€™ve tried changing the language of my OS (WinXP) and re-exporting but that doesnâ€™t work correctly. Iâ€™ve also tried adding substitute font keys to the registry (at: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionFontSubstitutes) as outlined here:
http://www.quasimondo.com/archives/000211.php
but the fonts I added did not show up in Flash's font menue.

Iâ€™ve also tried the method outlined here:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_16275
to no avail.

I know there must be a simple solution that will allow me to embed language specific character sets for the fonts embedded in the library but I have yet to discover what it is.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

http://www.quasimondo.com/archives/000211.php

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_16275

Difference Embedded And Not Embedded Font
Hi all,
I was wondering if anyone had the same problem I did.. I'm using a font called DS-Digital (free font) in one of my movies and well if I don't embed the font and use the textFormatter to determine my dynamic text width then everything is find, however if I use the embed font feature and determine it's with the same way then it's about 5-10 pixels smaller, which causes the text to display incorrectly..

Is there a way to fix it easily. Right now I just add 25 pixels to the textFormatter width just to be sure the font is displayed properly, but I hope there will be a different solution for this problem..

Thanks for any help..

Embedded Video + Embedded Cuepoints
I am using embedded video with embedded cuepoints.

When i put setBufferTime on 0 the cuepoints of the flvmovie will be readed good, the right moment.

If i put setBufferTime on 10 or 20 than the cuepoints will be readed 10 or 20 secs faster.

Somebody known of this problem?
And have a workaround for this?

I am using Netstream connection.
(not the flvPlayback or mediaPlayback component)

Embedded Fonts Vs Non Embedded
I am in the process of learning flash inside and out. During the testing phase of my design site I noticed that some of the text appeared very thin and hardly legible while other text was bold and vibrant. I checked the settings of the fonts to see if it was a Bold character setting issue but the fonts that were vibrant and thick had no Bold character setting at all. After many hours of comparing the different text boxes on the screen I realized that some of the text box had the embed font option on. This makes text less vibrant. Atleast it did with the particular font I used. Is it possible to cut down on memory while embedding the fonts and still have vibrant looking text? Try making several white text boxes on a black background with some of them being embedded and others not and you will see what I mean.

Best Regards,
Sam

P.S. THIS FREAKIN SITE ROCKS!

Why Do Embedded Fonts Blur When Non-embedded Fonts Dont?
If someone could offer a suggestion here I'd be much obliged. I'm trying to build a web site using pixel fonts but since very few people have this particular font, I'm trying to embed the font. The problem is that when I don't embed it looks perfectly sharp, but as soon as I embed it blurs them (as if it tries to anti-alias a pixel font.. which I don't want it to do)... any ideas?

[CS3] About Videos
Greetings all:
I have made a video and I've imported it over to flash CS3 and into a SWF movie. Now I am trying to export the entire movie over to Frontpage as my Index file but when I preview it the video I imported wont play whats am I doing wrong? Or is there something new you have to do when you import or export a movie using Flash?

Two Flv Videos In One Swf?
I want to be able to play multiple flv files in one swf file, but not at the same time. It will be as basic as having one play until it is finished then having a new one play.

Check out a neave.tv for a good example of this.

I've tried changing ns.play to a new address when the duration of the video almost reaches its end. The function executes, but it seems like the 2nd video (testB.flv) loads over and over again.

Does anyone know a good and easy way of doing this? I'm figuring it will have to do something with first unloading the current video and reestablishing the NetStream.

Here's my current code:

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

var ns:NetStream = new NetStream(nc);

theVideo.attachVideo(ns);

ns.play("http://www.vectorsector.net/fullScreen/flv/testA.flv");

rewindButton.onRelease = function(){
ns.seek(0);
}
playButton.onRelease = function(){
ns.pause();
}

var videoInterval = setInterval(videoStatus,100);
var amountLoaded:Number;
var duration:Number;

ns["onMetaData"] = function(obj){
duration = obj.duration;
}

function videoStatus(){
amountLoaded = ns.bytesLoaded / ns.bytesTotal;
loader.loadBar._width = amountLoaded * 216;
loader.scrub._x = ns.time / duration * 216;
}

var scrubInterval;

loader.scrub.onPress = function(){
clearInterval(videoInterval);
scrubInterval = setInterval(scrubit,10);
this.startDrag(false,0,this._y,216,this._y);
}

loader.scrub.onRelease = loader.scrub.onReleaseOutside = function(){
clearInterval(scrubInterval);
videoInterval = setInterval(videoStatus,100);
this.stopDrag();
}

function scrubIt(){
ns.seek(Math.floor((loader.scrub._x / 216) * duration));
}
And..just in case, I don't think it's real important but here's my current player: vidTest3.swf

Right now the player doesn't feature a working scrubber, and don't mind the current graphics...its all for test purposes right now.

Thanks.

Videos Without FLV
Hi, can i play *.mpeg, *.mov movies in Flash without converting they into FLV?

Sorry for bad english.

.swf Videos
I use .swf videos in a flash movie, and I load them dynamically. When the videos reach their ends, the all flash movie suddenly slow down, until the video is unloaded.
What can I do to avoid this?

Videos
I just completed my website (finally), and I was horrified to find out that a video I posted can be downloaded. How do I stop this from happening? Does this involve public vs private functions. Obviously, I'm new to Flash. If anyone could point me to a tutorial, I would be so grateful! Thank you!

2 Flv Videos In One Swf
I want to be able to play multiple flv files in one swf file, but not at the same time. It will be as basic as having one play until it is finished then having a new one play.

Check out a neave.tv for a good example of this.

I've tried changing ns.play to a new address when the duration of the video almost reaches its end. The function executes, but it seems like the 2nd video (testB.flv) loads over and over again.

Does anyone know a good and easy way of doing this? I'm figuring it will have to do something with first unloading the current video and reestablishing the NetStream.

Here's my current code:

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

var ns:NetStream = new NetStream(nc);

theVideo.attachVideo(ns);

ns.play("http://www.vectorsector.net/fullScreen/flv/testA.flv");

rewindButton.onRelease = function(){
ns.seek(0);
}
playButton.onRelease = function(){
ns.pause();
}

var videoInterval = setInterval(videoStatus,100);
var amountLoaded:Number;
var duration:Number;

ns["onMetaData"] = function(obj){
duration = obj.duration;
}

function videoStatus(){
amountLoaded = ns.bytesLoaded / ns.bytesTotal;
loader.loadBar._width = amountLoaded * 216;
loader.scrub._x = ns.time / duration * 216;
}

var scrubInterval;

loader.scrub.onPress = function(){
clearInterval(videoInterval);
scrubInterval = setInterval(scrubit,10);
this.startDrag(false,0,this._y,216,this._y);
}

loader.scrub.onRelease = loader.scrub.onReleaseOutside = function(){
clearInterval(scrubInterval);
videoInterval = setInterval(videoStatus,100);
this.stopDrag();
}

function scrubIt(){
ns.seek(Math.floor((loader.scrub._x / 216) * duration));
}
And..just in case, I don't think it's real important but here's my current player: vidTest3.swf

Right now the player doesn't feature a working scrubber, and don't mind the current graphics...its all for test purposes right now.

Thanks.

Flv Videos...
what's peoples thoughts on encoding videos regarding file size and quality?
im doing a showreel site for a friend and he sent me a 2 Gig uncompressed quicktime movie . its only a couple of minutes long - he obviously wants it the best quality, but i want to balance quality with file size. does anyone have a good ratio for video file size/quality? should i get him to compress it first before i encode it to .flv? is compressing things twice worse than once?

Two Flv Videos In One Swf
I want to be able to play multiple flv files in one swf file, but not at the same time. It will be as basic as having one play until it is finished then having a new one play.

Check out a neave.tv for a good example of this.

I've tried changing ns.play to a new address when the duration of the video almost reaches its end. The function executes, but it seems like the 2nd video (testB.flv) loads over and over again.

Does anyone know a good and easy way of doing this? I'm figuring it will have to do something with first unloading the current video and reestablishing the NetStream.

Here's my current code:

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

var ns:NetStream = new NetStream(nc);

theVideo.attachVideo(ns);

ns.play("http://www.vectorsector.net/fullScreen/flv/testA.flv");

rewindButton.onRelease = function(){
ns.seek(0);
}
playButton.onRelease = function(){
ns.pause();
}

var videoInterval = setInterval(videoStatus,100);
var amountLoaded:Number;
var duration:Number;

ns["onMetaData"] = function(obj){
duration = obj.duration;
}

function videoStatus(){
amountLoaded = ns.bytesLoaded / ns.bytesTotal;
loader.loadBar._width = amountLoaded * 216;
loader.scrub._x = ns.time / duration * 216;
}

var scrubInterval;

loader.scrub.onPress = function(){
clearInterval(videoInterval);
scrubInterval = setInterval(scrubit,10);
this.startDrag(false,0,this._y,216,this._y);
}

loader.scrub.onRelease = loader.scrub.onReleaseOutside = function(){
clearInterval(scrubInterval);
videoInterval = setInterval(videoStatus,100);
this.stopDrag();
}

function scrubIt(){
ns.seek(Math.floor((loader.scrub._x / 216) * duration));
}
And..just in case, I don't think it's real important but here's my current player: vidTest3.swf

Right now the player doesn't feature a working scrubber, and don't mind the current graphics...its all for test purposes right now.

Thanks.

Videos Into Flash
Help!
im a beginner
and im making a flash website that i need to contain video
the video was in avi, but i converted to wmv to decrease file size
i still have the avi file tho
i want to put these videos into tthe flash site, am i right in thinking il have to convert to mov? if so how?
and will that then not be a flash file, but a quicktime file? will this still work as a website?
or will it just be an interactive movie in a quicktime player?

HELP ME PLEASE!

Cd-rom With FlashMX And Videos
i think about to produce a cd-rom for a customer with flash.
generating a projector file with flash and tweaking it with jugglor (http://www.***********.com/?section=tricks_jugglor).
Has anyone some experience with this process...??
AND IS IT POSSIBLE TO USE THE VIDEO OPTIONS OF FLASH MX ON THE FINAL PROJECTOR FOR MAC AND WINDOWS??
i heard about problems using and CONTROLLING flashvideo on a projector file?

MX Vs Shockwave For Videos
Hi,

I need to built a cdrom including videos and the same files used in this CD need to be viewed on the Internet as well.

I have played with MX and embedded a QT movie encoded with sorenson codec and it works fine. But i have done the same with Director and i have constated that within the shockwave player the video and audio quality is better than the one with the flash6 player and the size file as well is less.

I have used the same preferences setting for audio and video with both Flash and Director.

Any ideas why? Would i be better off using director8.5?

Thanks

Xav

Combining Videos
Does anyone have any ideas as for combining 3 avi movies together?

Thanks!

Michael

Help With Linking Videos
I'm making a skateboard media site (www.chairandcouch.com) but I'm having problems linking my videos... I tried this code:
on (release) {
getURL ("javascript:openNewWindow('http://www.YourSite.com/page.html", "WindowName", "resizable=no, scrollbars=no, toolbar=no, location=no, directories=no, status=no, menubar=no, width=550, height=400, top=75, left=130)");
}

But when I tested it it didn't work for videos. I want the video to link from a button and open in a new window. I'm using quicktime format. Can someone please help with this? Thanks.

Ian

Importing Videos
how would I import a video from a dvd?

Chain Of Videos
I have a video (.flv) that is cut into pieces that I need to play in succession. I am using the media playback component and pointing it to the local file, which is located in a folder next to my main flash file.

I have the first chunk of video playing, and would like to start the next chunk loading, then play it when the first is done, etc...

Not quite sure how to proceed with either of the following...

1) Linking the next piece of video to start playing in the media playback component when the first is done

2) Pre loading the next chunk while the current one is playing..

any help would be appreciated..
- Jmac

Exported Videos
how do I make exported videos come out less pixelated?

Videos In Flash
Hi!

I have a short clip I've created using Fraps. But when I import the clip into flash, flash says that the file format cannot be edited just played.

So I ran it trough AVS VideoConverter into all kinds of codec's but none of them works.

What codec can flash import and actualy edit?(I mainly want to convert the whole video into keyframes for simple editing).

Thanks on advance

Videos From Buttons
i want to load many different flvs into a video player by clicking on buttons (ie thumbnails). i only know how to code one video to go into one video player.

do you code buttons and if so what is the code you use? if anyone can help, i'd appreciate it.

thanks

Videos From Buttons
i want to load many different flvs into my video player by clicking on buttons (ie thumbnails) one for each video. i only know how to code one video to go into one video player.

what code do you put on the buttons to open and close netstream etc. I'm desperate, so if anyone can help, i'd appreciate it.

thanks

Background Videos?
http://www.motionloops.com/

Does anyone know how they make those videos? Is it After Effects? Where can I learn how to make these types of videos?

Videos In Flash?
I am making a portfolio, and am just starting to think about a few videos I have to insert. I am able to use a friends copy of sorenson squeeze, but have a couple of queries that people might be able to help with.

1) all of the videos are about 2-3 mins of high action, and the average file size for a very small compression (320X240, 12fps, 48bit) seemes to be about 1.5-2 meg. Is this about right? (I have always had trouble with my videos being too large.)

2) how is the best way to incorperate this into flash? I have thought of a couple of different ways other than importing it into my main movie (dont want to do), I could load it from a seperate swf with its own preloader, link to a quicktime .mov so it streams. Is there any way to stream a movie in flash? if so can anyone point me to a tutorial / give me some pointers.

thanks,
Sillyfishyboy

You Tube Videos
Hello,
I was wondering if it was possible to grab a flash movie from YouTube and put it inside my own flash movie.

Currently YouTube lets you put a Flash movie of a video by giving you the code to include the file in your site. What I want to do is show a list of small(in width and height) Videos, and when someone clicks on the Video it takes them to a page that shows the bigger video.

Thanks,
Jose

Videos And Cpu Load
if i have 4-10 videos (swfs) i need to play end-to-end. should i load and unload the clips as they play?

or can i load them and leave them off the stage stopped at frame 1?

is a stopped video much heavier on cpu than a jpg?

[F8] Videos On Flash
Ok. I have imported one of my videos into flash Professional 8.
It works fine when i go to test it, but I dont want the video to play in the first frame so i go and move it down about 2 - 4 frames and then when i go to test it it doesn't play at all, or when it does all it does is repeats the first frame over and over again. How do i fix this, and why is it happening?

Thanks for your help in advance.

What's Wrong With These FLV/swf Videos?
Hi

If you go to

http://www.enhancedwireless.net/Tech...AtestSWF.shtml

you'll see 2 large black areas on the page where I've got two videos.

Now, 2 things...they both have a skin or controls below each video, but those controls are NOT showing, why not? I've uploaded the video skin to the server with the correct flv and swf files...And what is best to do re: an image, sort of a poster image at the beginning before one presses play button, instead of this Black nothingness. How do you have a still image of the video and then it disappears and the video starts when viewer presses play button (if I can get the buttons TO SHOW!).

Using Flash Prof 8

Thanks alot

KB

Preloader For Each Of My Videos
Hi there,

I have a problem with my flash project. The loading time when uploaded to the internet has been a problem for ages so I attached pre loaders within each of my .fla files. The only problem is that it seems to take a while just for the preloader to show! (about 52% then it appears)

Isnt the whole point of a preloader to show a percentage bar "straight away"?

Any help appreciated

Thanks in advance

LK

Working With Videos
Hi all,

I'm very new to flash. I was told that i should use flash to do the game i have in mind. here it is

What i want is to do a game just like crime patrol or mad dog McCree. there are old 3DO games. For those who have no idea what it is, here's a quick description. It's a shooter game (with light gun, i just want to use mouse clicks) that was made from filmed videos (of real people).

I want to do something similar but with videos of me and my friends. I have done a lot of research on game editors but they all have the same limitation, when a video is played, u lose control (you can't click or press any button) control is given back only when the video has finished playing.

So what i'm currently looking into is an editor that will allow me to play a video and still allow the player to click on the screen to do the shooting (kill the bad guys before they get you).

So my first question is simply would flash allow me to such a game ? the sceond one would be, does anyone knows where i should start or has anyidea to help me acheive this.

Thanks a lot to all of you.

Regards
Lespoils

Advertiseing On Ym Videos?
if i make tutorials or videos how can i add advertising to them? like a pop up inside the video while it's still playing then randomly come and go? or anything like that

[CS3] Videos Delay?
Hello,

I've searched but i had no luck finding this.

I have some videos in my portfolio. Some are published using flvplayback component, and the new ones i've made a flv player of my own using netstream actioscripting.

Anyway, in work i have no trouble in watching them, and they start buffering right ni the moment i choose to watch the video. But in other places, with different connections, it seems that the video doesnt show up in the buffering stage, rather it loads the entire video and only after begins to play.

I have the code made in a way so that it shows an mc with a "buffering video" text, but sometimes nothing shows up.

If you want to see for yourself, here's link.
http://www.miguelmadail.com

After opening, please use the "recent work" in the left and choose the 6th square.

Thank you.

[F8] Flash App Videos
accidental post

Embed Videos?
How do I embed videos on my flash website from youtube please?

BulkLoader And Videos
I'm running into a small problem with BulkLoader and displaying videos. I think it's a simple problem that I'm just overlooking.

The issue at hand is that the video will always display, but sometimes there's a delay and it won't appear on screen until halfway through the animation, and other times it works great and starts from the beginning. Everything is being tested locally on my machine.

Here's the following code:

Code:
package port {
import flash.display.*;
import flash.events.*;
import flash.media.*;
import flash.net.*;
import br.com.stimuli.loading.*;

public class Portfolio extends MovieClip {

var loader : BulkLoader = new BulkLoader("main-site");

public function Portfolio() {
loader.add("background.flv", {type:"video", pausedAtStart:true});
loader.addEventListener(BulkLoader.COMPLETE, allLoaded);
loader.start();
}

public function allLoaded(e:Event):void {
var bgVideo:Video = new Video();
var bgNS:NetStream = loader.getNetStream("background.flv");
bgVideo.attachNetStream(bgNS);
bgVideo.width = 737;
bgVideo.height = 600;
bgVideo.x = (stage.stageWidth / 2) - 368;
addChild(bgVideo);
bgNS.resume();
}
}
}
I hope it's a stupid, simple mistake I'm making here .

[CS3] Do Not Want Videos To Autoload
Font Changing and Video Loading Errors

Relatively new FLASH user....video editor trying to expand my knowledge base.

I have a site I'm publishing online and have two lil bugs I can't seem to figure out.

1) My source Flash file displays my header font in static text in a certain font and when I upload it to the net and look at it on my computer it looks fine. However, when I look at it on a different computer (using Safari) the header font is replaced by an entirely different font. How can I embed the font or force it to use the font on all browsers/machines?

The site I'm building is located at:
http://www.ampproductions.tv/shows.html

2) The videos on this page all load as soon as the page loads. How can I make it so that the videos do not load until their particular play button is clicked on?

Thanks a ton!!