Flash Video - Help!

Hi Everyone-
I just finished up a website - on the homepage, there is a
video in flash which I created using the >import flash feature
from the file menu.... My problem is that it has a "black colored"
screen and it stays that way until a user presses play... Can
somebody please tell me how I can get an image to display there
until someone does press play? I have searched all over google and
other forums and cannot find a tutorial or anything.
The website is www.roandrandy.com. Any advise is greatly
appreciated!
-Eric

51 Users online and not one person can reply... jeez
thanks...

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kyconjim wrote:
> I'm fairly new to Flash and trying to embed a video to
my website. When I
> import my video and test the movie, it works perfectly,
showing the controls at
> the bottom and everything. When I add it to Dreamweaver
and test the page, it
> only shows the video (sans media controls) and
automatically plays when the
> page is loaded. What am I doing wrong??
>
> I'd like to upload the flash video w/media controls
beneath it, to dreamweaver
> and it remain paused until the viewer hits the play
button.
>
> Can anyone help?
Dreamweaver does not reflect full functionality, you need to
upload your stuff to
server or test in browser. Best way to make sure things
works.
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you have correct paths
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> I am trying to put a flash video on a website. I have
the .flv file
encoded. I
> followed the instructions to Insert>Media>Flash
Video. Got the .flv file
in the
> root folder, picked a skin, etc. When I view the page in
the browser from
> Dreamweaver, it works just fine. So I uploaded the site
to the server and
tried
> to view it straight from the browser (rather than
through local files). No
> flash video. The page appears as I designed it, only in
the middle where
the
> video is supposed to be it is just blank (black, just
like the
background). Any
> help would be greatly appreciated as its frustrating
when you have it
working
> all the way through the "preview in browswer" and when
you upload to
server it
> still doesn't work. I upoaded the html page and all
dependent files as
well.
> Thanks in advance.
>
> URL posted below:
>
>
www.spottedtailproductions.com/videos/Upstream_flash.html
>

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Hello everyone I am hoping someone here can help me. I am going to school and I have an action scripting class. For my final project we have to make a flash video player with a custom skin to upload to our websites. We did something similar to this with our first project which we made a player where the movies where embedded in the file itself but this is supposed to be a youtube like flash player where we can call in the files from another source.
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import fl.video.FLVPlayback;
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Please help me
thanks
Message was edited by: BTwardy

I don't know if what you posted is all that is in that as file, but you need to declare a package, then call the import statements, then declare the class name. Like this:
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after spending hours getting this to work correctly in AS3
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@pixeladdikt

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