Flash 8 video - what am I doing wrong?

>>So "dd2.flv is in the same folder as the movie" might not have meant a
>>thing.

Good point, thanks for the clarification. The little player I came up with
is here for testing:
http://test.beautyriot.com/BRTV/brtv.php


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PS: One other cautionary point here, which evidently isn't the case this time. Remember the path to external files (including FLVs) is not relative to the swf, but relative to the html page or projector (if you are using those things). So "dd2.flv is in the same folder as the movie" might not have meant a thing.

Just a useful bit of tid for all y'all or anybody else who searches and finds this thread.

> I see where I went wrong - those are for the mediaPlayback
> component... and I've already decided to use a video object.
> I was just wanting to put a little test together, but this is better
> anyway.

Agreed. The footprint is about as small as it gets.


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Thanks David. I see where I went wrong - those are for the mediaPlayback
component... and I've already decided to use a video object. I was just
wanting to put a little test together, but this is better anyway.

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Dave,

> I have a Flash 8 FLVPlayback component on stage, with
> an instance name of 'vid'. In a frame script I have:
>
> vid.setMedia("dd2.flv");
> vid.play();

The FLVPlayback class does not feature a setMedia() method, that I can
see. According to the docs, FLVPlayback "wraps" mx.video.VideoPlayer. Not
sure if that means "inherits," but assuming for sake of argument that it
does, the VideoPlayer class does not faeture a setMedia() method, either.
Unfortunately, the docs get a bit cryptic at this point, IMO. The FLVPlayer
Component has a contentPath property, as you mentioned, but I don't see the
same property in either of the aforementioned classes.

Perhaps something in the inheritance chain provides for a
FLVPlayback.setContent property. I see references to a mx.video.NCManager
class, but can't seem to find that class reference anywhere.

If you can do without the FLVPlayer Component, you may just want to use
a Video object to load your external FLV.

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


David
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Dev essays: http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design."