flvplayback

Playing FLV using the video component in flash

I'm trying to stream a FLV file from a remote site no starting the streaming from some point inside the movie. I'm getting the FLV right (see it download in firebug), but nothing is displayed in the video field. Does this have something to do with keyframes ? Is it mandatory to seek in a flv right in a keyframe ? Will provide ActionS...

Seek in remotely hosted FLV problem with Flash Video componnent

I'm trying to open a video file (flv) that is being hosted remotely. When I seek in the video using another start point other than 0, the player turns 'black' and then nothing happens. I see the progress bar (in firebug) loading, so data is being received but nothing is displayed in the video componnent. Am I missing something ? ...

flash/shockwave audio&video player which lets a user record start and end points

We have a bunch of audio and video assets on our site. Currently we play audio with a little shockwave mp3 player and video (flvs) with flvplayer. I have a requirement to record a 'usage' of a particular resource whereby the user selects a video or sound clip, then sets a start point and an end point in it, to select a ten second snipp...

play multiple flv file in single swf object

Hi, I have one swf object in my site. I have to read data from database and after fetching data of video names, I need to play those video in single swf object one by one, means after completion of first video second video will start. Thanks in advance. ...

AS3 - Error #1009 when adding an FLVPlayback via "Import Video" into another scene

In Flash CS4, if I create a new AS3 file and use File > Import > Import Video to bring in an mp4 video it works great. However, if I create a new scene and import the video into that, I instantly get this error at runtime: TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference. at Untitled_fla::MainTi...

Get decoded frames in Flash (FLVplayback)

Hi, I want to know if it is possible to get the decoded frames from FLVPlayback, or if it is known another alternative to access the decoded frames from a flash player. What I want to do is to manipulate the decoded frames before they get rendered on screen. The video source could be an RTMP stream or a FLV (F4V) file. Any hint is welc...

Reset FLVPlayback component for playback with same source

I'm using the same FLVPlayback component to play many page transition videos throughout a large flash site I'm building. On each transition, I'm setting the component's source using myFLVPlayback.source and listening for the fl.video.VideoEvent.READY event before proceeding with each page transition. This works fine as long as the tran...

Detect NetStream events with AS3 Video Object (not component)

I have created a FLV video player using the AS3 flash.media.Video object (not the FLV playback component) and I am trying to listen for meta events and Cue Points embedded in the FLV video but I am not receiving any when I trace the movie. The cue points are not being created dynamically, they are in the FLV video. Video embed code: ...

What's the difference between the Video object and the FLVPlayback component?

What is the differences in use of these two objects? Which one should be used for a "Youtube-like" video player with a custom skin and playlist? ...

Flash Actionscript 3.0 FLVPlayback and VideoEvent.STATE_CHANGE Oddities

Hello all, This is my first post, but this question has racked my brain and Google's servers all night, so I thought I would pose the question here. Let me get started on the preliminaries of my problem so I can elaborate the issue. I know FLVPlayback is buggy but this seems like either a version problem or I might be in need of an upd...

FLVPlayback component in Flash 8 (AS2) and support for HD H.264 video

I have developed a video player using Flash 8 Professional and the FLVPlayback component. Recently I have been testing a few 720p .mov files converted to FLV by FFMPEG running on an encoding server. I am noticing that these files do not play back in my video player. It appears that they do not have any audio attached to them but when I p...

How does the use of the FLVPlayback component in Flash CS4 Pro (AS2) differ from same component in Flash 8 Pro

I have a project developed using Flash 8 Professional which uses the FLVPlayback component to load video from our Amazon S3 bucket. Everything works great. I have tried to bring this project into Flash CS4 Professional and swap the Flash 8 FLVPLayback component in the library for the CS4 component. When I publish however the video does n...

Flash FLVPlayback CuePoint problem

Hello I have a flash app that plays movies. It loads subtitles and subtitle times from an xml file. Now the problem is this: in one or two of the films the first subtitle disappears after only one second even though it's in and out times are correct and it should be displayed for 5 s. I have no idea why this is happening since all the ...

Youtube downloader.

string host = "http://youtube.com/v/"; string end = ".flv"; WebClient Client = new WebClient (); StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(@"ids.txt"); string line; do { line = sr.ReadLine(); Client.DownloadFile(host+line+end,line+end); } while...

Internet Explorer Warning when embedding Youtube on HTTPS site?

Our application is run over HTTPS which rarely presents any problems for us. When it comes to youtube however, the fact that they do not present any content over SSL connections is giving us some head ache when trying to embed clips. Mostly because of Internet Explorers famous little warning message: "Do you want to view only the web...

Alternative to FLVPlayback (like Flowplayer) for RTMP video stream? Or a fix for skinAutoHide not working in Firefox on Mac.

I just need a "simple" video player that I can manipulate from Javascript (via ExternalInterface). It needs to support RTMP sources. I like Flowplayer, but I need something that allows for commercial on multiple domains without a hefty license fee. I was simply going to use FLVPlayback, but I'm having headaches with the skin not proper...

FLVPlayback component freezes when seeking beyond loaded content

I'm creating a flex-based video player, using the FLVPlayback component (imported from Flash Pro CS3). I've reskinned all of the player controls and linked them in, and it's all working really well... However, if you try to seek beyond the point where the video has loaded (it's using progressive download), the video completely freezes. ...

Flash FLVPlayback states

I'm writing my own class to manage a skin for an FLVPlayback component. It works 90% of the time, but sometimes the state get really messed up. Specifically, the video is playing, meaning I can see it play and the VideoEvent.PLAYHEAD_UPDATE event is firing, but when I poll the FLVPlayback component about its playing property, it returns ...

Flash AS3: (VideoEvent.COMPLETE, completePlay) - listener is triggered before video is completed

Hello, I have a flash video using the standard FLV Playback component that comes with Flash. I'm using ActionScript 3 to modify the appearance and set up an event listener. I've set it up to go to a new URL using "externalInterface" when the video completes play. The URL is set in a variable using SWFObject. On only a few instances (3 ...

Can seekToNavCuePoint be used with flvs streamed via RTMP?

I have been able to create the actionscript required to use seekToNavCuePoint with a locally hosted flv with embedded cuepoints. Once I switch to having it on our RTMP server the cuepoints are not available it seems. Lots of googleing has me coming up short. This is using the FLVPlayback component and ActionScript 3. ...