Creating a Dynamic Playlist for Streaming Flash Video

Hello,
I have been trying the tutorial given by Lisa Larson in order
to create a dynamic playlist for streaming Flash video files. I
have realized some of the FLV files that I have downloaded from
internet don’t show in the thumbPlayList and cannot be
played. But once I convert them back to WMV and the use the Flash 8
Video Decoder to convert them to FLV file everything works fine.
Any idea or suggestion why there is such a problem?
Thank you for your advice.
Babak
ps.
This
is the link to the tutorial I mentioned ...

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hi, anyone tried the tutorial: creating a dynamic playlist
for streaming flash video?
i follow the instruction exactly as stated in the tutorial
and test the fla file, it worked perfectly well when i open the swf
using the macromedia flash 8. Everything look fine. Nothing is
changed except the url is changed to "rtmp://localhost/videosource"
in the xml file.
after i publish the file using the setting: access network
only, i try to open the swf and html file from the folder, the
thumbnail did not appear and there is no way i can click on any
videos. What i see is only the list, and there is no response from
the flash media server 2. All the files is in the same folder.
Anyone please help with this problem???? thanks

....i debug the movie step by step
and realised that the xml file is being read by the code...
Your original problem stated it worked but not when playing
outside the
Flash authoring environment by simply loading the swf from
the hard drive.
The Flash authoring environment is a trusted environment and
so you really
need to test in the actual deployment mode which loading an
swf from the
hard drive is not a valid deployment unless an installed
Flash player is
available outside the web browser which you would have as you
have the
authoring tool and your users will not.
Use a browser with
http://yourdomain.com/yourmovie.html
to do final
debugging.
In this regard you may need to debug the movie while running
in real time
mode in a web browser with
http:// A technique to trace I suggested is to
create a temporary TextField perhaps named out_txt and send
trace message to
it such as out_txt.text += "My Trace Expression".
Lon Hosford
www.lonhosford.com
May many happy bits flow your way!
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news:[email protected]...
sorry but i don't understand what you mean....i debug the
movie step by step
and realised that the xml file is being read by the code...
this is a sample of my log files:
#Fields: date time x-pid x-status x-ctx x-comment
2006-05-15 20:08:58 3072 (i)2651170 Unloaded application
instance
videosource/_definst_ -
2006-05-15 20:48:19 3848 (s)2641173 FCApplication loaded
successfully.
2006-05-15 20:48:19 3848 (s)2641173 Communication Framework
loaded
successfully.
2006-05-15 20:48:19 3848 (s)2641173 SimpleConnect loaded
successfully. -
2006-05-15 20:48:19 3848 (s)2641173 VideoConference loaded
successfully. -
2006-05-15 20:48:19 3848 (s)2641173 Video Playback loaded
successfully. -
2006-05-15 20:48:19 3848 (s)2641173 Communication Components
loaded
successfully.
2006-05-15 20:48:19 3848 (s)2641173 Sending this message:
Hello! You are
connected as: undefined -
2006-05-15 20:48:19 3848 (e)2641190 Error : command msg sent
before client
connection has been accepted. -
2006-05-15 20:48:20 3848 (s)2641173 Sending this message:
Hello! You are
connected as: undefined -
2006-05-15 20:48:20 3848 (e)2641190 Error : command msg sent
before client
connection has been accepted. -
2006-05-15 20:48:20 3848 (s)2641173 Sending this message:
Hello! You are
connected as: undefined -
2006-05-15 20:48:20 3848 (e)2641190 Error : command msg sent
before client
connection has been accepted. -
2006-05-15 20:48:20 3848 (s)2641173 Sending this message:
Hello! You are
connected as: undefined -
2006-05-15 20:48:20 3848 (e)2641190 Error : command msg sent
before client
connection has been accepted. -
2006-05-15 20:48:20 3848 (s)2641173 Sending this message:
Hello! You are
connected as: undefined -
2006-05-15 20:48:20 3848 (e)2641190 Error : command msg sent
before client
connection has been accepted. -
2006-05-15 20:49:42 3848 (s)2641173 Sending this message:
Hello! You are
connected as: false -
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This is my first attempt at building a dynamic playlist for
streaming flash video and I'm following the tutorial at
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} //end else if
} //end if
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list.dataProvider = nav;
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