FLV video in AIR app

I have made an AIR application with Flash including SWF/FLV videos.
When I run the application, the videos aren't displayed.
Even so I have included the directory containing the videos in the export setup stuff.
And when I export in EXE format, videos are OK.
Have you ever encountered that issue ?
Thanks !

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Local videos not playing in Flash/Dreamweaver Air app

Hi there. I am having trouble playing local video from an Air app created from Dreamweaver. I have found many similar [posts, but most are about Flex and so on. I need some help getting this working form Flash and Dreamweaver.
What I did wat create a jQuery site that uses Flash to play videos. It will be packaged as a desktop Air app using the Dreamweaver Air plugin.
From advice that I got here (http://soenkerohde.com/2008/06/playing-local-files-with-air/)
I started a new Air Project in Flash as suggested. Using an Air flash app makes more sence I guess, but I still need to imbed it into an HTML framework.
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import flash.filesystem.File;
var myVideo:Video = new Video(stage.stageWidth, stage.stageHeight);
addChild(myVideo);
var nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
nc.connect(null);
var ns:NetStream = new NetStream(nc);
var client:Object = new Object();
client.onMetaData = function(metadata:Object):void {
trace(metadata.duration);
ns.client = client;
myVideo.attachNetStream(ns);
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<blockquote cite="">ArgumentError: Error #2004: One of the parameters is invalid.
          at Error$/throwError()
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Instead of using the File object, try URLRequest instead:
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Chris

Flv video not playing in AIR application

Hi everybody,
i'm building a tutorial with flash catalyst and since the 20 states limit i've split it up in different swf files that I import and show in different states.
One of these swf (which i built with Catalyst as well) is supposed to play a flv video, and it actually plays it if i run it alone.
The problem comes when i build the overall tutorial: it works perfectly with the "run project" command in Catalyst and with the run-local version but the video won't play if i try the AIR application.
Does anyone have any suggestion?
NB: the "asset" directory created with the AIR application installer does contain the flv file (i didn't have to put it there manually)
Thanks in advance for your help,
Giuseppe

Hi Giuseppe,
what I do is:
1. create a file using Captivate
2. i place a .flv video in this file
3. save the file as .swf
4. then i go to dreamweaver and put the swf on a html page.
Now:
when viewed in a browser, everything runs fine.
when i pack this page into an air application (in dreamweaver) the video does not appear,
instead I get this "Connection Error"
I do not know a console or log file.
However, I learned that there is a .xml file located in the same AIR folder that you publish in.
In this .xml file there is a setting :transparency. in order to playt a .flv file this must not be be "transparent"!
(i read this somewhere in the net)
hope that helps
I will talk to a professional programmer, if I have any news, i will let you know
Claus

Needed. Android Air app to watch live FMS video stream.

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FLV colorspace is different from Android to Android? Is FLV video HW accelerated?

I'm not sure how long this problem has been there, maybe since November 2012 when we launched the app, or did it just appear. I can dig deeper if I get any replies. It seems some of our FLV videos, which have a person speaking on front of a white (as in #ffffff) background, end up having gray background in some devices. I had a lot of trouble originally getting the encoding process work and I'm not sure if I even understood it in the end.
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SET p1="%~dp0bin/x264.exe"
SET p2="%~dp0bin/Bepipe/BePipe.exe"
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Hi BKSTER
I just tested this and it seems to work fine. Here is what I
did.
1. Within my Captivate project, I inserted the Flash .FLV
file.
2. I browsed to a file on my hard drive and the File Link
field listed the absolute path of C:\somefolder... blah blah blah.
3. I then changed it to point explicitly at the server where
I placed the .FLV. The link then looked like this:
http://www.MySever.com/FileName.FLV.
4. I dismissed the dialog and published the Captivate
project.
5. I uploaded the Captivate files to one server and the .FLV
on the other.
6. I ran the Captivate .HTM file and observed. The .FLV
played as expected!
Hope this helps... Rick

AIR app on Android for live chat crashes

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I use netconnect and netstream in my actionscript 3 flash player for desktop FLV video playback. But now I would like to add support for Apple iPad.
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Play local FLV files in AIR

Hello,
Here is another question regarding FLV files: I'm developing my AIR application using Dreamweaver. My app will need to play some local FLV files wich will be delivered together with the application (they are not online).
I'm using the built in feature of Dreamwever, wich creates a small SWF called "FLVPlayer_Progressive.swf" when you insert an FLV in the page. If I preview the page in Firefox, everything works fine and the video is played, but if I preview it in AIR, there is just a blank box where the video should be.
All the files are in the site's root folder and are included in the "AIR application settings" (FLVPlayer_Progressive.swf, Clear_Skin_2.swf, video.flv, index.html and application.xml).
I tryed importing the video in Flash (through progressive download) and then creating a small SWF wich would work only as a player but it didn't work either. The only way it worked was if I actually embedded the video in the SWF (so there is no external file), but then I have some audio synchronization problems and I loose quality...
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As you said, after putting an absolute path in (I used "C:\video.flv" for testing) it worked fine! So what I did was create a code that would get the absolute path to the video located in the app-storage folder. I came up with the following:
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Limits are important. There's a large amount of work done to keep a clear separation between a users decision and a developers decision. For instance, you can't change a users default audio output because that clearly violates a users decision. That said, here's a whole mess of people debating the issue and actually eventually an undocumented COM API you can find that will actually let you do it in Vista/Win7 (but not 8), however don't expect that to be a 'good thing to do':
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http://www.adobe.com/devnet/rtmp.html
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Also, is this really the best practice Adobe approved way of targeting AIR 3?
http://jeffwinder.blogspot.com/2011/09/installing-adobe-air-3-sdk-in-flash.html
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3. http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/updaters/11/flashplayer_11_ax_debug_32bit .exe   ===> InstallAX.exe

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