Cue Points with netstream

I've created a custom object without the FlvPlayback
component. I used the following code:
var nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
nc.connect(null);
var ns:NetStream = new NetStream(nc);
myVid.attachVideo(ns);
ns.play("flv/home/intro.flv");
That flv file has embedded cue points. How do I access them?
I can access them easily if I were using the FlvPlayback component,
but I don't think the cue points are getting through the netstream.
Any ideas?

use the ns.onCuePoint event handler.

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Adding cue points to NetStream

Hello I have been working on a project and have loaded videos using netstream. I have several cue points that advance the timeline to a certain keyframe. Would anyone have the script for NetStream that would do this, for example, when the video reaches cue1 it would advance the timeline to frame 10?
Thank you so much for your help.
mark.

Since no one has yet posted on this, I'll re-post part of a response to another post which deals specifically with using cue points with a NetStream video player:
OK, here is a working NetStream cue point:
var ns:NetStream = new NetStream(nc);
video_screen.attachVideo(ns);
/* Name of your video, with correct path, goes here */
ns.play("my_video.flv");
ns.onCuePoint = function(evt:Object){
    trace(evt.name);
    trace(evt.time);
    if(evt.name == "jump_100") {
        trace("YO !Jump to 100!");
        gotoAndStop(100);
Reading this code:
set a new variable "ns" which is a new NetStream
attach a video to "video_screen"... the instance name of the video on the stage
now use that variable "ns" to play a video with file name "my_video.flv"
use ns to listen for an "event" type cue point Object
when the cue point is detected trace the event name and time
if the event name is exactly equal to "jump_100"
then trace "YO !Jump to 100!"
and then gotoAndStop at frame 100
For this exact code to work, your NetStream variable must be named "ns"
In the video you play, there must be a cue point of the "Event" type with the name "jump_100"
There must be at least 100 frames in the timeline.
Take it in small steps;
First make sure you can play the video using NetStream ... that's all.
Next, add the trace to detect the cue point... if you can't detect it, of course it won't do anything.
Only after you can successfully play the video and detect the cue point, should you attempt the cue point action (jump to frame 100).
You can also add more "if" statements if there are multiple cue points.
If cue point 1, then do this.
If cue point 2, then do this.... etc.
Best wishes,
Adninjastrator

How to play a cue point with mixer

I know how to play a cue point of sound with the method:
sound(1).queue([#member: ... #startTime: ... EndTime: ... ])
How can I transfer the method of cue point using the mixer?
I need to have any hint about this because I must use both cue
point with playrate, at my begginer level of knowledge I know that:
1) I can't use "playrate" with "sound(1).play()" method.
With this method I can use cue point;
2) I'm trying to know If I can use cue point with mixer method.
With this method I can use "playrate" .
It is also for me important to know if it is possible or
impossible to solve this problem in director.
Thanks.

iPhone 3gs, 4 or 4s?
With the former two, just drag the videos to the desktop iTunes and sycnhronize to your iPad. They will be synched to the stock Videos.
With the latter, you can either resize the video to 720p (or less) OR use a third-party app (It's Playing, AVPlayerHD, GoodPlayer being the best choices) to play it back. I'd go with the latter to avoid quality degradation and long-lasting reencodings.

I need help with my event-based cue points with audio

Im having trouble with my video game project for my action script 3 class at school. Here is what i did, i made a game called Tailgate toss up. I filmed my character and rendered it in Adobe Premiere. I than brought my .mov file into After Effects and I put event-based cue points-
my first cue point at 0:00:03:13 called "loop"
my second cue point at 00:00:03:27 called "draw"
my third cue point at 00:00:05:24 called "bang"
my fourth cue point at 00:00:13:29 called "dead"
my fifth cue point at 00:00:14:29 called "You Lose"
my last cue point at 00:00:19:14 called "End"
Here is my action script 3 code
///first frame:
start_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, startGame);
function startGame(event:MouseEvent){
gotoAndStop(2);
SoundMixer.stopAll()
stop();
///second frame:
stop();
var loopTime
var hitHim:Boolean = false;
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vConnection.connect(null);
var vStream:NetStream = new NetStream(vConnection);
var client:Object = new Object();
client.onCuePoint = onCuePoint;
vStream.client = client;
var myVideo:Video = new Video(418, 480);
myVideo.y = 0; ///this adjusts where the video is, right now it is the size of the canvas which is 418,480
addChild(myVideo);
myVideo.attachNetStream(vStream);
vStream.play("michelle.flv");
var throw_bottle:Sound
throw_bottle = new Sound(new URLRequest("audio/throw_bottle.mp3")); //change to button noise, will add sound into ae file
target_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, shoot);
target_mc.buttonMode = true;
target_mc.visible = false;
draw_mc.visible = false;
function onCuePoint(cuePoint:Object):void {
   if(cuePoint.name == "loop"){
loopTime = cuePoint.time;
    if(cuePoint.name == "draw"){
var randomLoop:Number = Math.random()*10;
if(randomLoop > 2){
vStream.seek(loopTime);
}else{
setChildIndex(target_mc, numChildren - 1);
setChildIndex(draw_mc, numChildren - 1);
target_mc.visible = true;
draw_mc.visible = true;
if(cuePoint.time == "5:24"){
draw_mc.visible = false;
target_mc.visible = false;
if(!hitHim){
vStream.seek(15);
if(cuePoint.name == "dead"){
vStream.close();
myVideo.clear();
gotoAndStop(3);
if(cuePoint.name == "end"){
gotoAndStop(3);
function shoot(event:MouseEvent){
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hitHim = true;
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When I have no audio it works perfectly, no problems. When I bring audio in i re-render it as a .mov file and bring it back into After Effects and add the cue points to it. Than i re-render it out again as a flv file. When i bring it into my flash project it will work when the looping variable does just one loop and my target will appear so you can click on it or not. But when the looping variable makes it loop 2 to 10 times it skips over the catching (the part of the clip if you clip the button) and goes directly to the dropping of the can, not giving you the option of clicking the button. So basically it skips the "draw" or second cue point of my game and goes to "You Lose" cue point.
Any suggestions?

Hi,
The latest audio driver for your machine is on the following link.
http://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp59501-60000/sp59649.exe
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Cue points with Sound Forge 9.0a?

Just upgraded from SF 6 to 9 … I haven’t needed
cue points in a long time but it used to be as simple as saving a
WAV file with markers in it. With SF 9 I have an option to save
WAVs with and without meta data. Saving without meta data strips
out the cue points (logical enough, reading the sound file back
into SF 9 confirms the markers are gone) … saving with meta
data creates a file Director 10.1 won’t read (“Having
trouble reading file, Continue?) Has something changed? I’ve
searched here and on the web at large and not seen any mention of
issues between SF 9 and Director. I’ve tried two machines
with the same result.

Fixed it, sort of… Apparently by default Sound Forge
doesn’t name the cue points at all and Director doesn’t
like this (at least up to MX04, don’t know about 11). To
create wav files with metadata that Director will read:
In Sound Forge navigate to Options > Preferences >
Labels.
Check the box “label markers”, I also used the
prefix and leading zero options
Any new markers will now have labels
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positioned that I didn’t want to remake. In this case I
renamed each cue point by hand, one at a time. Insanely tedious but
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First of all thanks for the reply. I didn't explain myself
well. I know about the stop frame on the first frame. My cue points
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Cue points - listener vs event?

I'm a little over my head here...
I have a movie that loads an external flv. In the flv I have
a cue point at
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done playing,
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There are a few posts here and there and I'm not sure if I'd
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David,
>> There are a few posts here and there and I'm not
sure
>> if I'd be better testing for the end cue point with
a
>> listener or if it could be an event.
Cue points are events, no matter how you handle them. There
are three
basic categeories of object functionality: properties
(characteristics),
methods (things the object can do), and events (things the
object can react
to). An "end" cuepoint is something your video object reacts
to, so it's an
event. How you *handle* (that is, manage) this event depends
on how the
object was written. Some objects, such as Button, TextField,
and MovieClip
instances require event handlers. Some require event
listeners.
I blogged on this just the other day, so for what it's
worth, take a
look here ...
http://www.quip.net/blog/2006/flash/event-handlers-listeners
Hope that helps.
David
stiller (at) quip (dot) net
Dev essays:
http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design."

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you're welcome.
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Thank you again Dima!!!
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