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Shadowbox in IE

I'm opening a .flv in shadowbox, works fine in Firefox, but opens below the overlay in IE. I looked on their site, and double checked the <doctype>. That's fine, but still have the problem. Any other ideas? ...

Programmatically convert a video to FLV

Hi all, i am currently working on a web application that needs to accept video uploaded by users in any format (.avi, .mov, etc.) and convert them to flv for playing in a flash-based player. Since the site is OpenCms-based, the best solution would be a ready-made plugin for OpenCms that allowed to upload and play videos doing the transc...

Flv file download and browser progress bar

I have just coded up a web based flv file download utility. When I try to download an flv file, the browser does not show a progress bar as in I do not see the time left for download. Somewhere I read that this happens if the flv file you are trying to download does not have a meta tag associated with it. So I ran my flv file through the...

FLV: How to stop a VideoPlayer from scaling along with its containing MovieClip?

I'm creating a VideoPlayer object in a swf and that works well. I'm sizing it using autoSize and that's working fine too. I'm trying to make it so that when the containing swf gets larger the video stays at the same size. The swf is actually loaded from another flash movie which is where the resizing happens. Is there a setting in the Vi...

Embed Resource a SWF Flash video Player in ASP?

I am trying to do an ASP.net custom control for the Flow Player flv player that has the swf object embedded. With Steve Orr Controls I learned that you can embed javascript files and register them so you don't have to always add the javascript files manually. I am wondering if this holds true to SWF files. I have been reading all over t...

How do streaming videos work?

Hi, So I have some videos in .flv format which I'd like people to be able to view from my site, without being able to download them. So far Flowplayer seems like the best choice for the actual flash player. However, I've been looking into this video streaming thing, as its supposed to make the videos very fast to view and allows seekin...

Flash Encoding (FLV): What are the prefered bitrates?

I inherited a project that is sending videos off to a remote encoder to encode into FLVs. Today, I noticed that we are asking them to encode at 1024kbps To me, this seems extremely high. What is everyone else using? What is YouTube using for "standard" vs. "high quality" versions? Thank you in advance. ...

Putting FLV video on website - How to add a static image before it plays

Hi, I am trying to put an FLV video on a website. I tried using Dreamweaver CS3 (Insert - Media - Flash Video), it works great except for 2 problems: The video starts black (How do you show an image prior to playing the video?) The browser starts downloading the whole movie even before the play button is clicked (I want the video to ...

FLV file and SWF file

Hello everyone, Just want to confirm whether my current understanding is correct, we can use Flash Player browser plug-in to play both FLV and SWF file; FLV file contains only video/audio, but SWF file could contain not only video/audio but also other information (picture/animaton/etc.). thanks in advance, George ...

How to display subtitles with an flv file in a web page?

I've created subtitles for a video in mp4 format, that i would like to put online, as an FLV file. Is it possible to have the subtitles played along with the flv file without integrating them into the video images, so keeping them in srt format ? ...

Can you play S3 signed url FLV videos in Flash 10?

I am wanting to load FLV videos from S3 server into my Flash application. The original files will need to be protected (ie permissions set to read only for authenticated users) so the video files will be called with a signed url... I have managed to load and play non-signed url FLV's into the Flash app. 1) Any issues I should be aware o...

Error streaming high quality FLV over RTMP with Red5

I'm rather new to the FLV streaming/Red5 scene and have found that for some reason I cannot playback FLV files encoded above a certain quality using the oflaDemo. I've encoded the FLV files from h264 to Sorenson Spark using ffmpeg. It works using -qscale 31, but anything much higher (the number seems to change between different movies) r...

Converting stream of jpg files to FLV stream

I work with a Panasonic hcm280a camera that can be controlled by my software, It generates a stream of jpeg files that are huge and I want to convert this stream to a FLV stream preferably with a good compressional ration Does FFMpeg do that? I am basically looking for an off the shelve open source software (or commercial software) that...

How do I run a line of actionscript when a flash video has finished playing?

I am including a video within a flash banner. When the banner loads, in the space where the video will play I have prepared 'click to play' graphics, with a button which invokes nextFrame – taking the main flash movie's play head to the frame where the actual video is. The video then plays fine, but finishes on a blank, black screen. W...

Red5 stream flv file

Hi everybody I was inspecting the oflaDemo from Red5. I was wondering how I could change the oflaDemo so that I could stream a certain flv file to all the subscribers... /** {@inheritDoc} */ @Override public boolean appConnect(IConnection conn, Object[] params) { // Trigger calling of "onBWDone", required for some FLV play...

Retrieving SWF / FLV dimensions in VB.net

I'm uploading a flv / swf file and I need to capture the dimensions of those files so I could later retrieve it from a database and embed it into a page. Any suggestions of how I could do it in code behind? ...

flv stream decoding, 3gp encoding

Are there any open source projects in any language and other recourses that I need to look at in order to implement flv to 3gp conversion? It's better to be streaming, I mean return first portion of 3gp before last portion of flv is downloaded. Or are there any similar services already implemented - my goal is to have something like ht...

preload FLV in Actionscript 3?

Hi guys, I'm working on a flash site with lots of video-based section-to-section transitions. The transition videos themselves are only a few seconds long but are fairly weighty (~700kb) as they're very high-resolution; given the number of sections and section-to-section transition combinations (and therefore videos), preloading all of...

FLV Playback - scaling and smoothing vs. hi-res?

Hi guys, I'm building a flash site (as3) with large videos that act as transitions from section to section. The videos don't scale; in order to accommodate users with large monitors, we're planning on playing back HD video and only showing users the center of the frame (depending on their screen size). That is, there will be a central...

Embed flv file as banner

Hi, My client provided me with a .flv file to place on their home page as a banner. I have searched the internet for a while but did not come accross to a proper way of doing it. First of all, is it "the" way of doing such banners? or are they supposed to provide me with a .swf instead? If .flv is ok, then how do I embed it (no play con...