We are considering developing a streaming video website, like Youtube. What are the technologies available, and how to leverage them? I know that clients like Adobe Flash Player, Silverlight etc can be used to play the streamed movie, but my concern is more or less regarding the server architecture, encoding etc. Please help. Right now...
All, I've starting experimenting with amfphp. I've gone through a few great tutorials (particularly those by Lee Brimlow at gotoandlearn.com). As long as you're using AS3, it works great, since AS3 includes the built-in NetConnection class. However, I'm looking to use amfphp on a bunch of existing AS2 projects. The problem is that AS...
Any simple, but secure script available for Flash > MySQL DB integration? I need something for a Login DB. Exchanging variables with PHP is nice and easy, but obviously insecure. via Remoting? I've got the Flash 8 remoting components installed, and some ideas: idea-1, idea-2. via NetConnection? Got some leads: lead-1, lead-2. Cold Fu...
I am using the FLVPlaybackCaptioning Component to display captions for a video. We've built a player that uses a FLV file hosted locally or streamed from the server to show captions for a video, a slide title, and slide text. The example is up here: http://www.brainline.org/multimedia/webreadyplayer I want to display images using the ...
I have an application where users can upload video files of any size, and I'd like to be able to determine the the height/width of a Flash video file (flv or f4v) from a PHP script so that I can size the player appropriately. I'd love a pure PHP solution, but I'd be open to shelling out to a command line tool and parsing the output (if ...
My product opens a web browser and points it at an HTML file containing a local Flash application. How do I detect programmatically whether this file loaded successfully and if not what exception was thrown? Is there a way to do this using Javascript? Checking externally whether the file exists on disk is not enough because I've seen ot...
I'm embedding a Flash video into an HTML and would like the user to have to click it to begin playing. According to the Adobe <object> / <embed> element documentation, there are variety of methods to do this: 1) Add a Flash parameter inside the <object> tag: <param name="play" value="false"> 2) Add the attribute play inside the <embe...
I found SwfDotNet to help me create swf flash files with C#, but I need some documentation or some examples on how to use this better. http://sourceforge.net/projects/swfdotnet/ I'd like to be able to take multiple images and create a slide show, and have some transitions between them. Nothing fancy, but I can find the details on how t...
If you have a Java based web application (J2EE webapp - never mind which other underlying frameworks are being used), and you wanted to introduce a Flash based front-end, would you use Laszlo or would you rather expose a ReST-like XML interface and build and deploy a Flash application that uses that? On one hand, Laszlo is quite amazing...
What's all this business about Flash, Flex, Adobe Air, Java FX and Silverlight? Why would I choose one over the other? and what happened to Java Applets and ActiveX controls? Oh, and where does AJAX fit in to all this? and is Laszlo relevant? Afteredit (in response to some "d'uh" type answers): the question is a bit tongue-in-cheek. I ...
We have a need for an application that runs on an end user's machine and provides us with score results, and we need to results to be accurate (i.e. not tampered with). Currently, there is a debate between Flash and Silverlight, and it looks like Silverlight is going to be the winner. Aside from the agurment that anything on an end us...
Hi, I would like to display tagcloud in my home page. Found this wordpress flash plugin http://alexisyes.com/tags/wpcumulus , but for that i needed to setup wordpress. I am wondering whether there is any other standalone plugin similar to wpcumulus which can be configurable. I don't want to install wordpress but i would like to make u...
I have a parts application that is built on Flex 3 and I having a problem with the parts list. The parts list uses two objects: Part ArrayOfPart I cache the parts list locally in a SharedObject. This has been working fine for a couple months. I added a new Boolean property to the Part class and re-imported web services (which shouldn...
Sometimes its necessary to code in AS2 to target Flash Player 8, so we're forced to write within the Flash IDE. Any refactoring tools / plugins available for Actionscript?... Within or without the Flash IDE, that's no problem, as long as it builds for Flash Player 8, AS2. ...
I want to create reports that can be drilled down by the readers - but the reports have to be PDF. I have two options: Link from the PDF to an online report tool Make the reports themselves interactive I like #2... I believe I can do this with Adobe AIR (Flex, Flash + Adobe Reader 9 or higher). There are tools that can create PDF d...
I have a Flex 3 app (player v9) which loads a Flash SWF (AS3, also player v9) and needs to dynamically pass it a collection of parameters which are known at run-time. These are parameters that are normally passed via the flashvars element in an HTML page. The embedded movie accesses these parameters via the loaderInfo.parameters object. ...
Does anyone know how to take a swf (version 7) and use the SwfLoader or something similar to access a root variable in the swf from a Flex application? I have tried many things with no success. I don't want to clutter this post with all of my failed attempts, but I will post them later if I see that they are needed as examples. Just so...
Right now in Flash CS3 and up (using Actionscript 3) if you have the same instance that is used in multiple keyframes in a layer, and you decide to assign or change the instance name later, you would have to go to each keyframe and set the instance name. This is a big nuisance. Is there a quicker or better way to do this? NOTE: In AS2...
Are there any lint tools available for actionscript? One source would be ideal, but anything is welcome. My team is starting to adopt more a more rigorous style guide (where "more rigorous" means "existant"), and I think a linter would help us all adhere more easily to the style rules we've agreed on. I'm not above writing my own, but...
I have an old program written in Actionscript 1, compiled in Flash 6. It loads 10 other modules, of which 3 are written in Actionscript 2, compiled in Flash 8. The original program is embedded into an html and works perfectly when the html file is run on a webserver. But if I just drag the html file to my browser, the 3 AS2 modules will ...