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How to play video (.flv) without showing the loading image for buffering while playing?

Answer 1

+1 A:

The easiest way is to use Pre load asset manager. There is an example:

import gs.dataTransfer.PreloadAssetManager;
var preloader_obj = new PreloadAssetManager(["myFile1.swf","myFile2.swf"]);
this.onEnterFrame = function() {
    myPreloader_mc.bar_mc._xscale = preloader_obj.percentLoaded_num;
    if (preloader_obj.percentLoaded_num == 100) {
        gotoAndPlay("start");
    }
}

With percentLoaded_num you can set the amount that needs to be loaded before playing. Instead of the swf's use the flv's you want to preload. I haven't used it for flv's but it should work. Check the documentation for more information on this.

Also it's not a good idea to not allow buffering when not preloading the whole flv. Internet speeds are variable.

RonaldV 2009-11-05 10:16:31

Answer 2

A:

You can create custom buffering animations. If you don't want to show anything, I imagine you could create an animation that has nothing in it or that has no frames. See here for a video tutorial.

Mr. Shiny and New 2009-11-12 22:29:04

Answer 3

A:

you can use flex to add the video you want and customize your own video controller

like this

Sample Player with and without Video Controller

Hope this gives you an idea.

Treby 2009-11-13 05:54:01

Answer 4

+1 A:

Roger Pate 2009-11-16 21:49:56

Nice tangent, but it really doesn't answer his question.

0A0D 2009-11-17 20:15:51

It sounds like you're thinking of the "Eight Fallacies of Distributed Computing" by some guys from Sun... http://blogs.sun.com/jag/resource/Fallacies.html although you probably read the paper explaining them from http://www.rgoarchitects.com/Files/fallacies.pdf (Summary at wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_Distributed_Computing )

Stobor 2009-11-18 23:37:37

Thank you! [15chars]

Roger Pate 2009-11-19 04:51:31

Answer 5

A:

Try this. Get the video duration and set that to your buffer time:

var netConn:NetConnection = new NetConnection();

// Create a local streaming connection
netConn.connect(null);
// Create a NetStream object and define an onStatus() function
var netStream:NetStream = new NetStream(netConn);
netStream.onStatus = function(infoObject) {
   status_txt.text += "Status (NetStream)" + newline;
   status_txt.text += "Level: "+infoObject.level + newline;
   status_txt.text += "Code: "+infoObject.code + newline;
};
// Attach the NetStream video feed to the Video object
my_video.attachVideo(netStream);
my_video.onMetaData = function(videoMetaData:Object):Void {   
   var videoDuration = videoMetaData.duration;
}
// Set the buffer time
netStream.setBufferTime(videoDuration);
// Begin playing the FLV file
netStream.play("http://www.mydomain.com/myvid.flv");

0A0D 2009-11-17 19:49:48

Answer 6

+2 A:

One thing that can really help you out is to encode the video at different bitrates. There's no getting around the fact that some people will simply have insufficient bandwidth to have consistently good video playback. Fortunately, Flash allows you to do dynamic stream switching based on the detected client bandwidth. To utilize this feature, rather than playing an FLV directly, you give the player a SMIL file playlist with the different streams listed. FLVPlayback has this functionality built in. Here's a sample SMIL file, stolen from here:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE smil PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SMIL 2.0//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/2001/SMIL20/SMIL20.dtd"&gt;
<smil xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/SMIL20/Language"&gt;
    <body>
        <switch>
            <video src="video2.flv" system-bitrate="512000" />
            <video src="video1.flv" system-bitrate="256000" />
            <video src="video0.flv" />
        </switch>
    </body>
</smil>

Jacob 2009-11-17 21:10:55

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