Eureka Tip: At Last external Video for film composers

Maybe a lot of you already know this...
Since the demise of firewire video out in 64bit LP things have been rather frustrating when clients visit the studio and can only see their video on one of my computer displays. But know problem solved... Airplay to Apple TV to large HD Television creates a 3rd monitor to drag the Quicktime window to... QED
chiz
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x

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[svn:fx-trunk] 11625: The last few cleanups for the OSMF video player.

Revision: 11625
Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2009-11-10 12:03:43 -0800 (Tue, 10 Nov 2009)
Log Message:
The last few cleanups for the OSMF video player. Hooking up the videoObject property in VideoDisplay to return the flash.media.Video object. Also, when pauseWhenHidden is set to false, we'll detach all the event listeners on the parents because they are no longer needed.
QE notes: -
Doc notes: -
Bugs: -
Reviewer: Kevin
Tests run: checkintests
Is noteworthy for integration: No
Modified Paths:
    flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/spark/src/spark/components/VideoDisplay.as
    flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/spark/src/spark/components/VideoPlayer2.as

Hi Chris,
thanks for your tip. I didn't get around to trying it, as I have just solved the problem:
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When I talked about having relaxed all the local storage settings in my original post, I meant that in the System Preferences / Flash Player / Storage pane I had set "Allow sites to save information on this computer". I also had done some experimention around the "Ask me" and "Settings by Site" options - all without success. I had navigated to that pane by right-clicking on "Global Settings" from the non-working video players.
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karen..ETAL...(anyone who has helpfull comments)
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mckinzy wrote:
karen..ETAL...(anyone who has helpfull comments)
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+.. that advice sounds familiar to me.. but I'm a boy, not a girl???.. :D+
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Hi,
I just purchased a 500mb My Book Pro external drive
for use with my imac duo which runs Windows XP via
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with very different skills and needs. My dilemma. I
want to format the drive so that the imac can be
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software. It would be nice to backup the modestly
used windows sector, but that's a secondary
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200 gb drive using mac os extended so that the user
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extended, could I still run the retrospect backup
software? If not, is there a reasonably priced
alternative software? And finally, with either Fat32
or Mac OS extended, can I move files from the Windows
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or get her own hard drive, thus leaving the backup
drive to the simple factory supplied software
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