Movie Clip Symbol not looping video, and no audio

[ChrisFrost]

Hey guys

As per the title, I've got a video set as a background using the Movie Clip symbol and I've followed every tutorial I can find, but it's not looping plus there's no audio.  Nothing I can find online explains this.  Anyone have any suggestions please?

Many thanks!

Chris

[kglad]

your movieclip needs to have the video added to its (the movieclip) timeline, or use a video component that's set to loop.  then you have to use control > test > ...

[ChrisFrost]

Hi kglad

Thank you for your reply.  I don't know if this helps, but the only way I could get a MP4 video clip into this project was as a Video Component.  Does this change anything?

Many thanks

Chris

[kglad · Accepted solution]

if you mean flvplayback component, assign it an instance name (eg, flv_pb) and use:

import fl.video.VideoEvent;
flv_pb.autoRewind = true;
flv_pb.addEventListener(fl.video.VideoEvent.AUTO_REWOUND,rewoundF);

function rewoundF(e:fl.video.VideoEvent){
flv_pb.seek(0);
flv_pb.play();
}

[ChrisFrost]

That worked, thank you so much!

Do you have any tips on how to get the audio from that video to sound? It's still silent.

[kglad]

is your computer volume set to an audible level?

does the sound play when you test the video from your file system (in your default player)?

[ChrisFrost]

Yes, it just wouldn't play from within the Animate Project or a test preview

[ChrisFrost]

Ah it would seem my audio is out of sync with my method

[kglad]

does the video (when tested from your file syste,) include sound?

[ChrisFrost]

Yes audio was embedded in the file. If I play the video outside of Animate (i.e. through Finder) the sound is present.

[kglad]

open the video in adobe media encoder and resave it to see if you can then import into animate without problem.

[ChrisFrost]

Thank you KGLad, what format should I export it as? It was originally MP4

[ChrisFrost]

Well the good news is, I do have audio from the video file now! The bad news is, whenever I click on a button that has sound attached to it, I get digital distortion, all sound stops, and the video starts from the beginning without audio

[ChrisFrost]

Actually I might have this, I added the audio separately as a sound event and told it to loop.

Thank you again for all your help!

[ChrisFrost]

Wait, there was a random keyframe that shouldn't have been there. Everything's working now.

Again BIG thanks to you kglad, you have really helped me immensely and I am grateful 😄

[kglad]

you're welcome 

[ChrisFrost]

Hey KGLad

I wonder if you can help me.  I've added a second video to my project in the same manner as before, and I used your script again ...

import fl.video.VideoEvent;
RadarMov.autoRewind = true;
RadarMov.addEventListener(fl.video.VideoEvent.AUTO_REWOUND,rewoundF);

function rewoundF(e:fl.video.VideoEvent){
RadarMov.seek(0);
RadarMov.play();
}

By @kglad

Only this time I'm getting an error.

"1021: Duplicate function definition."

What can I do?

[kglad]

if you want to control both, you have to give them different instance names (in the control panel) and in the code, eg flv_pb1 and flv_pb2.  then you could use the same function to control them, if you wanted:

import fl.video.VideoEvent;
flv_pb1.autoRewind = true;
flv_pb1.addEventListener(fl.video.VideoEvent.AUTO_REWOUND,rewoundF);

flv_pb2.autoRewind = true;
flv_pb2.addEventListener(fl.video.VideoEvent.AUTO_REWOUND,rewoundF);

function rewoundF(e:fl.video.VideoEvent){
e.currentTarget.seek(0);
e.currentTarget.play();
}