FLV fullscreen problem

[Petteri_Paananen]

Hi again...=)

I have a problem....again. Maybe someone can help me out with this.

Little background:

I have a main.swf inside html-wrapper. I load some external SWFs into it. Sometimes there is a FLV-video included into a SWF, sometimes not. Those external SWFs comes actually from an automated process, so I don´t have acces to any source codes of them, and I have no clue about instance names of any objects etc...

Problem:

Theres a fullscreen button in main.swf. It works perfectly if I use it with external SWF without FLV. But if I try to use it with external SWF with FLV video takes over the screen and all the other graphics etc. disappears.

I´m looking for a solution to disable that fullscreen for FLV, but I still want my main.swf to go fullscreen... I know that I could use myFLVplayer.fullScreenTakeOver = false if I just knew the instance name of that FLV-player... but I don´t. And I actually doubt that it keeps changin all the time in a process that creates those SWFs, so there´s not much use to know how it is named in one SWF, name is probably totally different in another...

[kglad]

pass the content of your loader (after loading is complete and cast as a movieclip) to the below function:

function flvTakeOverDisableF(mc:MovieClip){
    for(var i:uint=0;i<mc.numChildren;i++){
        if(mc.getChildAt(i) is FLVPlayback){
            FLVPlayback(mc.getChildAt(i)).fullScreenTakeOver = false;
            break;
        } else if(mc.getChildAt(i) is MovieClip){
            flvTakeOverDisableF(MovieClip(mc.getChildAt(i)));
        }
    }
}

[Petteri_Paananen]

Thanks, that look promising...

I have a function where I load my external SWF in. I put a listener inside that function:

loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, flvTakeOverDisableF);

Then I cast loaded SWF as a MovieClip inside the function you gave:

function flvTakeOverDisableF(mc:MovieClip){
        var mc = MovieClip(loader.content);  //casting loaded content as MovieClip mc
    for(var i:uint=0;i<mc.numChildren;i++){
        if(mc.getChildAt(i) is FLVPlayback){
            FLVPlayback(mc.getChildAt(i)).fullScreenTakeOver = false;
            break;
        } else if(mc.getChildAt(i) is MovieClip){
            flvTakeOverDisableF(MovieClip(mc.getChildAt(i)));
        }
    }
   
}

I still do something wrong, I get warning:

TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert flash.events::Event@3d146a01 to flash.display.MovieClip.

[kglad]

no, don't edit the code i suggested.  use:

function whatever(){

//your loader code

.

.

loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,loadCompleteF );

}

function loadCompleteF(e:Event){

flvTakeOverDisableF(MovieClip(loader.content));

}

function flvTakeOverDisableF(mc:MovieClip){
    for(var i:uint=0;i<mc.numChildren;i++){
        if(mc.getChildAt(i) is FLVPlayback){
            FLVPlayback(mc.getChildAt(i)).fullScreenTakeOver = false;
            break;
        } else if(mc.getChildAt(i) is MovieClip){
            flvTakeOverDisableF(MovieClip(mc.getChildAt(i)));
        }
    }
}

[Petteri_Paananen]

Ok, thanks...

I did that and now I get warning:

ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable FLVPlayback is not defined.

at sourceCS3_fla::MainTimeline/flvTakeOverDisableF()

at sourceCS3_fla::MainTimeline/magLoaded()

[kglad]

are you using an flvplayback component?

[Petteri_Paananen]

I suppose there has been used FLVPlayback component, but actually I can´t be sure, it looks like one but I only see SWF, not any source.... I must try to ask that.

[Petteri_Paananen]

Have not heard a word from authors of that SWF file... but I open SWF into a decompiler and got lots of code... I picked up following function that was inside SWF:

     public function get fullScreenTakeOver():Boolean
        {
            return flvplayback_internal::uiMgr.fullScreenTakeOver;
        }

Could I call that some way from my loading swf? And disable fullscreen of videoplayer that way?

[kglad]

addt an flvplayback component to your loading swf's library.  retest using the code i suggested.  if that fails, delay the execution of the function i supplied for about 500ms after loading is complete and retest.

[Petteri_Paananen]

ok,thanks... I tried that. Without delay it didn´t work... what do you think. can I just use setTimeout like this:

setTimeout(flvTakeOverDisableF(MovieClip(loader.content)),500);

[kglad · Accepted solution]

no, use:

setTimeout(call_flvTakeOverDisableF,500);

function call_flvTakeOverDisableF(){

flvTakeOverDisableF(MovieClip(loader.content))

}

[Petteri_Paananen]

If I keep FLVPlayback component just in Library, it throws me:

ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable FLVPlayback is not defined.
    at sourceCS3_fla::MainTimeline/flvTakeOverDisableF()
    at sourceCS3_fla::MainTimeline/call_flvTakeOverDisableF()
    at Function/http://adobe.com/AS3/2006/builtin::apply()
    at SetIntervalTimer/onTimer()
    at flash.utils::Timer/_timerDispatch()
    at flash.utils::Timer/tick()

If I drag it to stage, it doesn´t give any warnings but it behaves strangely. If I open it to browser and push fullscreen button, it opens that empty FLVPlayback Component to fullscreen:

[Petteri_Paananen]

Never mind last one... I just named that extra FLVPlayback and used another fullScreenTakeOver = false; to it... now it works like a charm... million thanks to you (again)....

[kglad]

you're welcome.

[Ghost Of Death]

Whenever I search for a probelm and find a solution, I find that you are the one who posted that solution! Thanks for your great help!

[kglad]

you're welcome, too!

(believe it not, it's not unusual for me to search for the solution to a problem only to find that i'd solved it before.)