Monitor FLV download

[Guest]

Can anyone tell me how to do this? It seems like it should be incredibly simple. I started trying about 4 hours ago and thought I'd be done in 4 minutes...

I have an FLVplayback component that loads and plays an FLV file. Grand. What I want to do is monitor the loading progress and trigger a function at an arbitrary point. I want to make something happen when, say, 33% of the video is loaded.

The attached code does not work. I've tried a hundred variations of it and all of them call "doSomething()" instantly instead of waiting until the a certain amount of video is loaded.

Anyone know how to do this (or if it's even possible with AS3)?

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[Colin Holgate]

bytesLoaded and bytesTotal may read as zero to begin with, and so would trigger your routine. You could check for them being more than zero, or check > instead of >=

[Guest]

It's not coming up as zero. It's actually coming up as this seemingly arbitrary number that isn't related to the size of the FLV file at all.

I'm still baffled by this, but I managed to find a crude workaround. The following code works and is meeting my needs for the time being, but I would still like to know if anybody finds a "right" way to do it, since adding in timers for this sort of thing seems obtuse.