External FLV to swf

David,

The script works perfectly, thank you for the help.


Thanks,
Dustin

You could also check out http://www.gotoandlearn.com ... there are really good video tutorials on using flash video and other actionscript stuff.

Dustin,

> Thank you for the information, I read through your
> blog and tried a few things but I am not proficient
> enough with flash to make it work.

That particular entry isn't especially clear, given that the suggestions
are spread among the entry itself and its comments.

> Do you have any ActionScipt examples or now of
> any examples that I could look at.

Sure. From one of the comments itself:

// Load the video
var nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
nc.connect(null);
var ns:NetStream = new NetStream(nc);
videoPlayer.attachVideo(ns);
ns.play("externalVideo.flv");
// Monitor the video
this.onEnterFrame = function() {
if (ns.time >= 25) {
trace("Video is finished!");
delete this.onEnterFrame;
}
}
That handles the loading of the video, as explained in the article, as
well, as a loop to check the NetStream.time property against an arbitrary
figure -- in this case, 25. This requires that you know the length of the
video beforehand, which may or may not meet your needs.

The trouble is that there isn't a way to check the length of the video
programmatically unless you have Flash Media Server. That's where the
arbitrary 25 comes into play in the above sample code.

There's also the NetStream.onStatus approach, alluded to in that and
other comments. Thing is, I haven't done enough testing on my own to be
fully confident that checking for a status message indicates the end of the
video as opposed to a "hiccup" due to network traffic or some other pause.


David Stiller
Adobe Community Expert
Dev blog, http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design."

Hi David,
Thank you for the information, I read through your blog and tried a few things but I am not proficient enough with flash to make it work. Do you have any ActionScipt examples or now of any examples that I could look at.

Thanks again,
Dustin

dustinvh,

> Thank you for the information.
> I apologize for the question, I am playing flv and trying
> to load swf when the flv is finished playing.

Okay, that's what I was thinking.

> The flv was created by the Flash 8 encoder if that will
> make a difference on how to correct the problem.

Nah, that doesn't really make a difference. It's going to take a bit of
code, and it isn't especially easy if you're totally new to programming.
The most organized answer I have personally -- and it's not even especially
organized -- are the comments to this one article I blogged on a while back.

http://www.quip.net/blog/2006/flash/how-to-load-external-video

Make some popcorn, because it's a long show. ;) In particular, pay
attention to my May 16, 2006, reply to Mark.


David Stiller
Adobe Community Expert
Dev blog, http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design."

Thank you for the information.
I apologize for the question, I am playing flv and trying to load swf when the flv is finished playing.

The flv was created by the Flash 8 encoder if that will make a difference on how to correct the problem.

dustinvh,

> Is it possible to load an external flv and then load a
> swf file when the flv has finished?

Sure thing. Flash is capable of loading both FLVs and SWFs at runtime.
Is your question specifically how to tell when the FLV has finished playing?


David Stiller
Adobe Community Expert
Dev blog, http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design."