flvplayback

Can you load the FLVPlayback skin SWF in another directory?

Per this Adobe KB tech note is there any way around having to place the FLVPlayback skin SWF in same directory as HTML file the container SWF is loaded from? It pains me to have to put a SWF in my site's root directory. I think loading the Flash video in an iframe would solve this problem, but is that a good practice? I generally shy ...

Is it OK to use XSPF for video content?

Is it OK to use XSPF for video content? If not, what else should be used? I am targeting flash players, including Jeroen Wijering's JW FLV media player. ...

Menu indentation after full screen

Using the JW player, streaming flv via rtmp. I am also using the snell.swf skin. When I click on full screen, then return to normal I am seeing the menu for the currently playing item indent. Any ideas what is causing this? Also sometimes seeing menu items highlighted which are not the currently playing ones. Any ideas here as well? ...

free or cheap open source browser-based Flash (flv) video players

Does any know of any free or cheap OSS browser based Flash video player? It's going to be embedded on ASP.NET 3.5, a webcontrol would be handy, but not required. I've been looking around and there are a lot of options. My client wants to host a video on their web site like in a player like YouTube. Here are some of the ones I've foun...

AS3 FLVPLaybackCaptioning Component Displaying Images?

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 ...

Flash: VideoPlayer.load method sometimes fails...thoughts on why and how to recover?

I have a movie that loads an flv using the VideoPlayer class. It does it with the load function. Here is a code sample of what I'm doing: _root.createEmptyMovieClip("SlideA", 1); ... SlideA.loadMovie(urlContainingFunctionForLoadVideo); ... // SlideA has completely loaded SlideA.loadVideo(urlToFLV); function loadVideo(url) { ...

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 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 ? ...

FLVplayback - Stop the file automatically downloading...

I currently have the FLVplayback component on my stage, however, I have the autoPlay set to False. This is a problem because I want the stream to only start downloading when the user presses play. Also, I would like to be able to stop the stream from downloading when I click away from the page with the video on. Thanks in advance. ...

How shou FLVPlayback component

I am trying to add a 'FLVPlayback' component, as described on the Adobe site to a very very simple flash movie. I have no problem at all using this code to instantiate a FLVPlayback object dynamically. import fl.video.*; var flvPlayer:FLVPlayback = new FLVPlayback(); addChild(flvPlayer); //The next line assumes you have copied the ski...

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...

FLVPlayback won't seek when streaming from flash media server. How to fix?

I have a simple video player set up that streams from a flash media server. The video plays fine, but the majority of the seek commands send it back to the first frame of the video. If I don't use flash media server it will seek to any point which has already been loaded. Any ideas what could cause this? ...

Video hosting/upload API service for small business (other than YouTube)

I'm looking for a company that provides video hosting with an upload API, for a small businesses. Now, I know YouTube has an API for harnessing their technology, but the client doesn't like the idea of YouTube hosting their content. Other than trying to justify YouTube's API, has anyone had a good experience with another provider, or kn...

Is there an as3 video player that runs in flash player 9.0.16.0 ?

Hi, There is a known issue in Flash Player 9.0.16.0. It has to do with the FullscreenEvent. I guess because of that the FLVPlayback component doesn't work with this version of the player. I don't want to reinvent the wheel and build another FLV Player using the Video class. Does anyone know about a FLV Player that runs in Flash Player...

Flash video player doesn't play after rewriting a url

Hi! I recently started a new job working on a content management system. One of the jobs was to implement url rewriting, which i've done, but for some reason the URL rewriting has killed the ability to play flv files through FLVPlayer_Progressive. An example can be seen below: Working if you then follow the link on the menu and go to ...

Java: cross-platform .flv playback

Hi, I'm looking for a way to playback .flv files using java. This means I will need a ffmpeg lib that is cross-platform. I've been toying with jmf and fobs4jmf, but I cannot playback in linux because I need a native library (maybe fobs4jmf.so?). Is there any java lib that allows me to playback .flv besides fobs4jmf? Or fobs4jmf can be ...

VideoProgressEvent does not fire. Why?

I have a VideoProgressEvent on my FLVPlayback but when I test the video I get these posted in the log: _streamLength = NaN calling getStreamLength calling getStreamLengthResult(279.066) And the event never fires. What's going on here? ...

AS3: Reference Error 1056 when adding a movie clip containing an FLVPlayback

Hi all, I am getting a weird Flash error. The weird thing about it is that it -only- occurs when I open the .swf in the local Flash Player and go to "View > Full Screen". In the browser, or in the Flash Player at regular size, everything works perfectly. I have a button called video_button_01 (actually, video buttons 01 through 04), wh...

FLVPlayBack: don't load flv until prompted to

Is it possible to configure FLVPlayback so that it does not auto-load the associated video file, but instead waits for a click on a "play" button to load and then play it? (I'm building a site that will have a player for a rather large video on its front page, and I'd rather not have the video downloaded unless/until the user asks to see...

Red5 streaming video breaks the seek-bar in my video player

Hi I have a simple video player (build with the FLVPlayback component in Actionscript 3). If I stream RTMP video through Red5 I lose the ability to control the video, although it does play. The seek bar is just forever 'revolving' and stop doesn't work. I also get an error message about an SSL certificate from localhost:localdomain - whi...