Embedding a .flv inside of a SWF?

1.) Why would you want to embed a .flv inside of a SWF?
2.) Do you need to do this if you want to place small video
clips inside
of a SWF?
Thanks.

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Preloading large FLVs inside of a swf

Hi I have a client that I have developed a trailer for their project. Its a swf and at certain keyframes large videos play, the my listener tells the time line to continue on its path, and eventually hits a new large video.
These videos are not playing very well for the client, when they start typically they stutter.
Client is mad now and I need a solution. I am using actionscript 2.0 . How can I have each flv loadup all the way before it starts playing so it'd be smooth. I was hoping there would be a plugin or something I could buy that would show a loading bar and then have it go.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance, this would be a huge releif if I could get this finished.
Thanks,
John

Thanks so much. One more small thing if you have time. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. I don't mean to
monopolize your time.
Here's the code I have but my text field isn't displaying. I was able to play with it a bunch and the best thing I could get to happen was a NAN.
myFlv.play();
myFlv.stop();
myFlv.onEnterFrame = function (){
// display load progress
tf.text=100*flv.bytesLoaded/bytesTotal+"% Loaded";
if(myFlv.bytesLoaded>0&&myFlv.bytesLoaded>=myFlv.bytesTotal){
delete myFlv.onEnterFrame;
myFlv.play();
here's a link to the fla I'm pretty sure I have the text field set up correctly.
Again. You rock. Thanks!
http://www.thedenebianempire.com/flash/bytesTest.zip

Problems embedding an FLV into the timeline

Hello,
I'm interested in embedding a video into my swf file automatically. Therefore, I managed embedding an flv file onto the stage, but the problem is that after I give the embedded video an instance name and refer to the instance in a command (f.e change x,y coordinates or change width/height), on execution of the swf, the video stays frozen while the audio plays. If I don't refer to the embedded video instance, the video plays normally, just not placed correctly on the stage.
Is there any way to place the video correctly???
Thanks,
Ori

The problem here is that I want to automate the creation of the SWF. Therefore, I am using some sort of simulation program which takes control of GUI objects. The only problem I had was controlling the width, height, x and y controls that appear as simple text (not as regular text boxes),
Anyhow, that's why I tried giving the embedded video an <instance name> and editing it through actionscript code of the FLA file. But that gave me the phenomena that I explained where the embedded video is placed & sized correctly, but it appears frozen with audio running normally in the resulting SWF.
I hoped that there's a way to handle this problem (casting to a different object, using a certain function etc.), or that someone is familiar with this phenomena.
Thanks and still waiting for any suggestions,
Ori
P.S - If you want to see the phenomena, take an FLA file and embed it into the timeline on the stage. Later on, give it an <instance name> (via control+F3 to open the properties window of the object). Insert code to the FLA:
<instance name>.x = 0;
<instance name>.y = 0;
<instance name>.width = 100;
<instance name>.height = 200;
You'll see that the video does not play, while the audio is head normally.

[svn] 663: Fix SDK-14201: Performance: embedded images are written into the swf one byte at a time.

Revision: 663
Author: [email protected]
Date: 2008-02-26 13:56:08 -0800 (Tue, 26 Feb 2008)
Log Message:
Fix SDK-14201: Performance: embedded images are written into the swf one byte at a time.
This changes the way swfs are written out when they contain embedded lossless images,
such as PNGs and GIFs. The old code had a loop to write a byte at a time; the new code
does a single biblt. The result is a modest compilation speedup, on the order of
several hundred milliseconds when compiling Flexstore.
(This already went into the trunk as revision 658.)
Ticket Links:
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-14201
Modified Paths:
flex/sdk/branches/3.0.x/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/swf/TagEncoder.java

Hiya, Mike,
It's pretty tough to work through pasted-in code. If you can, please upload a page to a server, so we can see your pages in context. We'll be able to download it and look at it.
That said, you can do this: Find the beginning of an editable region in Code View. It will look like this:

Click anywhere in that tag, between the opening bracket and the closing bracket.
Then, on the vertical toolbar on the left side of the Code window, click on the "Collapse Full Tag" button. It is the one with two arrows pointing at each other. This will collapse that entire editable region. Then click the button with the two arrows pointing away from each other. That will re-open the editable region, but will highlight it.
If you have nested regions, you will find the other inside one of the editable regions. If you copy the <!-- InstanceBeginEditable and do a search on it in that document, you will find the nested region.
Beth

AS2 SWF loaded inside a AS3 SWF

Hi,
In a recent project I had to load a FlashPaper2 document
inside a SWF implemented in AS3. I read a couple of articles about
Darron
Shcall's article and
FlashInterface
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I needed to load a FlashPaper SWF inside a AS3 and couldn't
rely on ExternalInterface since they were not two separate SWF's.
To be more clear, I was using the Loader class via a Sprite to load
the FlashPaper SWF.
Anyways, I created FlashPaperLoader.SWF implemented in AS2
which was used to load the FlashPaper SWF. This loader was able to
communicate with the FlashPaper APIs (AS2). As you can guess, the
AS3 SWF was used to load the FlashPaperLoader.swf.
What I don't understand is how come the FlashPaperLoader the
FlashPaper document SWFs can communicate with each other thru AS2
function calls when they are loaded inside a AS3 SWF, I thought
that due to VM differences, no communication is possible!
I hope I was clear, if I was, any guru insight is really
appreciated.
Cheers.

Thanks kglad,
But you still haven't answered my question. I am not looking
for solutions, my own solution works. I wanted to understand more
about the VM's.
AS3
var request:URLRequest = new
URLRequest("./FlashPaperLoader.swf");
var loader:Loader = new Loader();
loader.load(request);
AS2
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// the loader SWF used IFlashPaper APIs to communicate with
the FlashPaper SWF.
Now, the first part (AS3), all that code is interpreted by
VM2. Once an AS2 SWF is loaded a
AVM1Movie
is created and no direct communication between AS3 and AS2 is
possible. I am curious to know how come the two AS2 SWFs can
communicate with each other while inside the VM2 space.

In mac OS, embedding ms word inside a SWT frame.

i wan't to embed microsoft word inside SWT or java frame in macintosh OS.
In windows OS, i embedded ms word inside a frame using org.eclipse.SWT.ole.win32 package.
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Hi manju nath i m also searching the same code me too find the code for windows that support system 32 ole but mac does not support if u know the soln in mac os
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[svn] 658: Fix SDK-14201: Performance: embedded images are written into the swf one byte at a time.

Revision: 658
Author: [email protected]
Date: 2008-02-26 11:28:16 -0800 (Tue, 26 Feb 2008)
Log Message:
Fix SDK-14201: Performance: embedded images are written into the swf one byte at a time.
This changes the way swfs are written out when they contain embedded lossless images,
such as PNGs and GIFs. The old code had a loop to write a byte at a time; the new code
does a single biblt. The result is a modest compilation speedup, on the order of
several hundred milliseconds when compiling Flexstore.
Ticket Links:
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-14201
Modified Paths:
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/swf/TagEncoder.java

Thanks John,
I've downloaded the exif tool + the gui - I can see how it's meant to work and have successfully processed a single file (even when I got the name wrong it still copied exif time data!)
I'll investigate further on how to do a batch and use command line
Really appreciate your prompt response to my problem.
I will let you all know how I get on - will take quite a few weeks but I am confident I can get there!
Thanks Mike
A week later I've now got back into this. I used the exif gui tool - which was very simple to use once I sat down with peace and quiet for 10 mins! I successfully copied and updated the correct exif data including capture time from the original backup files. My metadata keywords remained untouched when I then updated the metadata setting from disk in lightroom.
exif is a great tool, and I found it easier to use than AM pro - I couldn't see the photo attributes in the trial download so made it hard to sort by date.
Anyway my problem was overcome thank you

FLV. not working in SWF within HTML page

I have created a SWF presentation which contains several videos as FLVs. The videos are uploaded to a folder on the clients server.
The exported SWF and HTML files of the presentations worked perfectly when hosted on my local machine but when sent to the client, who uploaded to their own server, the SWFs ran but would not play the FLV files within. When they changed the HTML files to HTM they worked perfectly.
However...when they embedded the pages into the content management system the use it required that the pages were reverted back to HTML, therefore the FLVs are not working again.
The 'still' frame appears where the FLV should be, but the skin and the video itself does not load.
Does anyone have any idea why this issue has occurred?
Thanks in advance.

@Ned
Not sure about the folder structure of their site, to be honest they've been a nightmare client from day one so getting information like that out of them has been nigh on impossible.
The flv files are all in a folder together and these are linked from the swf with this link structure: http://www.sitename.org.uk/folder/video.flv
I'm not entirely sure how their CMS is structured. I was throwing this question out on the off chance that someone had seen a similar instance where HTML/HTM file types had affected functionality.

Flv player to play swf

I have a simple swf animation that I would like to post on my
website and I am looking for an swf player. I tried using the one
bundled with flash professional but it seems that it only accept
flv files. So is there any way around this.
I could create one because I am capable but I don't have much
time and I need a quick solution.
Any reply will be very appreciated.

Then I think your SOL man, You'd need to create a new file
FLA skin, or adjust the FLV dimensions maybe. I think if you scaled
the file using the browser markup it will scale the loading FLV as
well, but you could try it I guess, just go into the HTML file
embedding the player and bump the height param a few pix and seel
what happens.
I suppose there are decompliers out there so that you could
get at the code and construct a new FLA, that might be an option.
PS. yes the FLA is the Flash Authoring tool doc, where you
develop your assets and code, when published it then becomes the
SWF file.

Is there any way to display a pdf inside of a swf file?

Are there any software that will convert Word documents or pdf into swf files that ca be displayed inside of a Flash movie. Currently, I am using FlashPaper but the software is not supported anymore by Adobe. I am creating eLearning courses and having a pdf open inside of a course without opening multiple makes for a better learning experience. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

http://cookbooks.adobe.com/post_PDF_2_SWF_Conversion-4701.html

HOW TO TURN A .FLV FILE INTO AN SWF IN ADOBE?

Questions,,,,,
1. In a flash slide,,,,,How do I add effects to the movie,
like an intro black curtain coming up from the top and closing down
on the bottom,,,,,,to make it look more
professional?,,,,,,,,,,,like this video-SUMMER NIGHTS-
http://music.yahoo.com/ar-289037-videos--Lil-Rob
2. How do I convert .flv files to swf files so I can upload
them to my site,,,,,because thats all it excepts?

Peace,
I will try to answer both questions. You abviously know how
to creat an .FLV file. when you load you files on the server you
must place the .SWF and the .FLV in the same folder. With that you
will create your link to the .SWF file.
In regards to the other issue. I am incline to think that
what you see is a video effect and not a Flash one. If I where to
try this I would upload my video into the time line and add a new
layor to hold my effect. This should do it. But it will of course
make you .SWF larger than if you did the effect in a video editing
program.
I hope I helped some how.
Peace
Khnumtemu

Using Dreamweaver to create AIR app from HTML site, FLV loaded by placed SWF not loading

Hello.
I'm using Dreamweaver to create an HTML-based site that has pages with FLV-based videos that are loaded using a SWF file. The SWF file is just the player / skin. When I preview or publish to AIR, the videos do not show up. I'm sure others have asked how to accomplish this but I'm having difficulty finding the solution to this issue. Can someone share with them their solution please?
Thank you!
Robert

Steveejay, I was having the same problem. It turns out that
mine didn't like the fact that I was using the "POST" method in my
loadMovie() call. I changed them to "GET", and it works fine in the
web page now. Just doesn't work when previewing in Flash.

Flv odd behavior in swf on web but not authoring

Hi All,
I've been building a movie that includes linked flvs animations that were created in After Effects. (I need to export as flv because I need that alpha channel so you can 'see thru' the movies to the content below). These linked flvs are located within child movie clips. I fade those movie clips up and down with alpha tweens and then remove them (using removeChild) after they fade down for optimization purposes.
While building this project, I tested it often in authoring mode and everything always works fine: All flvs are open and play as they should. When I remove a child movie clip and then add it back (using the addChildAt) it appears on the correct layer in the composition.
I also posted the movie, in earlier stages, to test it on the web and it worked fine. Now, however, after I added only four more flvs (in movie clips ...using the same method), I see several problems that I never see when I test in authoring mode: On the web, some of those flvs load late. One flv ('wheelchair man') appears in front of another flv that it should be behind. At one point the largest flv animation just vanishes. Here is the movie:
http://home.comcast.net/~samiri/director/mortals/froggy/froggyPortrait.swf
-You might have to reload the movie to see the intermittent problems.
Again, these problems never show when I'm testing in authoring. (For example, that 'wheelchair man' is on the correct layer: He's behind the wall instead of in front of it.) Also: The late-appearing flv problem happens intermittently on the web.
I am ready to tear the whole thing apart and rebuild it piece by piece, testing each on the web, but I'm hoping someone has an idea what the problem might be before I begin that long process.
Thanks very much.
Message was edited by: paul_james123

Both. The z order is wrong...and the flvs don't load on time. (They eventually do load but after a lag that results in a gap in what is supposed to be a smooth dissolving of one MC into another (I tween down one MC at the same time I tween up of the next one). Again, neither of these problems show when I test in authoring mode, only when viewed in a browser.
Thanks for sticking with me, Rob. Since this seems like a thorny optimization problem, I'm isolating to test: Let’s only look at the "MCs don't load on time" issue. (forget the ‘z order’ problem for now):
Here’s my stripped down movie:
http://home.comcast.net/~samiri/director/mortals/froggy/
I only put 2 cue points in soundtrack now:
1st.) at 3500 milliseconds, tween out the 'poster frame' (of face1 + room background)
-This 'poster frame' is the placeholder image of face1 + bkgrn, put on the stage to hide the fact that the flv (with animating version of same content) loads more slowly than the bitmaps on the stage. I dissolve that poster frame down with the first cue point in the soundtrack (supposedly after the first MC has already loaded).
2nd.) at 9500 milliseconds , alpha tween face 1 down and face 2 up.
-Both tweens are supposed to happen at same time.
I’ve tested on 3 computers (vista, Win 8, Win8.1 pro) with 3 cpu/RAM/ghz configs (Celeron/2gb/1.66ghz, corei3/4gb/2.20ghz, corei7/16gb/2.4ghz) and in 3 versions of IE, one ver of Chrome and 2 versions of Firefox:
All show a gap in the ‘alpha tween up/down’ sequence (face1 tweens down and then you see the stage for 1-4 secs, then face2 tweens up). Most also show a sec of missing background (The animating room MC doesn’t tween up as the poster frame is tweened down so you see the white of the stage for 1-3 secs).
I’ve tested by viewing in a browser on my desktop as well as in a browser on the web. Both show the gap between the fade down of face1 and the fade up of face2. Firefox on the desktop seems to do the best (the room background MC doesn’t go missing very often, except the first time the browser accesses the .swf. (However, even Firefox, browsing locally, on my fastest computer shows the face-dissolve gap.)
So, as indicated, I think this is a problem where the movie clips that contain the flvs don’t tween up fast enough and play the flvs. What do you think?
Is there any way to optimize this method so it doesn’t fall apart when viewed through a browser?
Thanks much

How to loop to a certain frame with an embedded video flv

Hi everyone,
I've searched the internet high and low but can't seem to find an answer to my problem. I have an flv video file that I've imported into Flash CS5 project as an embedded movie, because graphic and movie clip both produced still images. I want to embed the final product onto my website, and have the video autostart in the beginning, play all the way through, and then go back to frame 40 or so and loop continuosly from there. I've tried selecting the final frame and applying the instancename.gotoandplay (40); code but it isn't working. I read that this only works on keyframes, so I tried making the final frame a keyframe but because it is an flv file for some reason it isn't allowing me to do that. I'm a newbie, any help is appreciated.
Dom

A second option is to use a NetStream video play. This is a much more powerful and versatile way to control video.
Looping back to any point in the video is very easy.
All it takes to get started with NetSteam is to go to the Library panel top bar, in the far right is a tiny menu icon....click and open it, choose new video, actionscript controlled. A video (icon) will appear in the Library.
Drag the video unto the stage, position and set dimensions as needed. Give it an instance name of "video_screen".
All you need now is a little actionscript:
stop();
var nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
nc.connect(null);
var ns:NetStream = new NetStream(nc);
video_screen.attachVideo(ns);
/* Name of your video, with correct path, goes here */
ns.play("video1.flv");
the example path assumes that the video file is named "video1.flv" and is in the same folder as the Web page... edit both as needed.
Test at this point to insure it's working.
Now to loop add this to the actionscript:
ns.onStatus = function(info) {
if(info.code == "NetStream.Play.Stop") {
trace("Video complete")
ns.seek(60);
ns.play();
This example will trace "Video complete" at the end of the video and then "seek" back to 60 seconds into the video and "play" again from that point.
While it doesn't seek to a frame, you can figure out what time corresponds and use that.
If you are interested in trying this method, I'd suggest you set up a new, blank Flash doc and test on there. then exact size and placement is no issue. Just get the video playing and looping. Then implement in the real project.
Best wishes,
Adninjastrator

Error when embedding the plugin inside java

I have IE wrapped inside java, and when IE loads a page with java, I get the error message "Attachment to a running Virtual Machine failed." I guess the plugin gets confused by the allready running VM.
Do I need to supply some hooks for the plugin?
My code is a http://nothome.com/IEcanvas/

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After this IE asks if the user wishes to install the Java 1.4 plugin. Essentially, no Java 2 applets will work in IE once it is embedded in our Java application.
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