CF & Flash Streaming Server

Question

I have a list of videos and I want the user to click on one.
This loads the Flash movie page where the movie they clicked on
loads. The code would get the video from a UIRL variable. However,
what I do not know how to do is get the CF Code to load the movie.
Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks

Answer 1

I know there has to be a more simple way of doing this, but
my work around was to place a flash player into my page so
Dreamweaver would do most of the coding. The name of the .flv file
is in the code twice. So I coped all of the code up to (but not
including) the first entry of the .flv file name and pasted it into
a MySQL table. Then I did the same thing for the code after the
first .flv file name, and again for the code after the second time
the .flv file name is listed. So now the code that Dreamweaver
generated should now be divided up and stored in your MySQL table
with out the .flv file name. It will be placed into the code later.
(I left the file path in the code so all I have to do is build the
code with these three data cells and the file name.)
Next I did a SQL call from my cfc to get the data from the
table:
<cfinvoke component="cfc.flashCode" method="flash1"
returnvariable="qFlash1"></cfinvoke>
<cfinvoke component="cfc.flashCode" method="flash2"
returnvariable="qFlash2"></cfinvoke>
<cfinvoke component="cfc.flashCode" method="flash3"
returnvariable="qFlash3"></cfinvoke>
Test for a url variable and assign it to a variable named
video, and if it is not defined give it a default value.
<cfif isdefined("url.message")>
<cfset video="#url.message#">
<cfelse>
<cfset video="open.flv">
</cfif>
Then where I want the flash video to be I entered this code:
<!--- This build the player code and inputs the video name
in both places--->
<cfoutput>#qFlash1.sData##video##qFlash2.sData##video##qFlash3.sData#</cfoutput>
Next is the list of .flv videos. I started with a cfc SQL
call to get the list:
<cfinvoke component="cfc.flvList" method="flvsToPlay"
returnvariable="qFlvs"></cfinvoke>
Then I entered the code to make the list with a link tag that
builds a link and passes the name of the .flv with the url
<table border="0">
<cfoutput query="qFlvs">
<tr>
<td>
<!--- Here is the link that passes the name with the url
then displays the name as a link--->
<a
href="/services/media.cfm?message=#qFlvs.name#">#qFlvs.name#</a>
</td>
</tr>
</cfoutput>
</table>
This is working as of now. Here is the flashCode.cfc code to
work with the MySQL tables.
<cfcomponent displayName="flashCode.cfc" hint="Works with
the flashCode Database">
<!--- Gets and Returns a the first storage slot in the
flashCode Database --->
<cffunction name="flash1" access="public"
returnType="query">
<cfquery name="qFlash1">
SELECT colName
FROM table
WHERE Id=1
</cfquery>
<cfreturn qFlash1>
</cffunction>
<!--- Gets and Returns a the second storage slot in the
flashCode Database --->
<cffunction name="flash2" access="public"
returnType="query">
<cfquery name="qFlash2">
SELECT colName
FROM table
WHERE Id=2
</cfquery>
<cfreturn qFlash2>
</cffunction>
<!--- Gets and Returns a the third storage slot in the
flashCode Database --->
<cffunction name="flash3" access="public"
returnType="query">
<cfquery name="qFlash3">
SELECT colName
FROM table
WHERE Id=3
</cfquery>
<cfreturn qFlash3>
</cffunction>
</cfcomponent>
Here is the flvList.cfc code to work with the MySQL tables.
<cfcomponent displayName="flvList" hint="Works with the
flvList Database">
<cffunction name="flvsToPlay" access="public"
returntype="query">
<cfquery>
SELECT name
FROM flvTableName
ORDER BY id DESC
</cfquery>
<cfreturn qFlvs>
</cffunction>
</cfcomponent>
I hope I made this easy enough to follow, and you can use it.
If some one knows of an easier way to do this I could also use it.
Thanks