Interactive Flash Video

Hello,
Wonder if anyone could help me?
I am creating an interactive Flash video with hotspots.
I have my video in Flash and I have created the hotspots at
different points in the video. What I want to achieve is when the
user is watching the video and they click correctly, some text
appears and adds an icon to a score board on the screen they see.
There are a total of 10 correct areas where they need to
click on the video, so the maxium they can achieve is 10.
Is they anyway I can achieve this and possibly how?
Thank you very much... I am very confused where to start.
Kind regards,
Paul

Create some invisible buttons to place on top of the video.
Then embed cue points in the video to trigger the buttons to appear
and disappear when appropriate.
2¢

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Interactive Flash on a DVD?

I have a SD DVD with 3 Videos and I want to also put 1 interactive Flash video on this same DVD. Is this possible?

You can certainly do it by adding a microsite, as you describe. The bigger issue is getting it to autorun when you click a link in the menu of the DVD. Currently there is no reliable way to get such links working effectively on both macs and PCs, and as you have already pointed out, you can't play enhanced content on the set top player anyway.
On the Mac side of things, the technology to get interactive links is called DVD@ccess. This works, to a fashion, on a Mac. It \sometimes works on \some PCs \if you persuade the user of the PC to install the DVD@ccess software and \if their system recognises it and allows it to work. Many don't.
In essence, the viewer would see the link on a menu, click the button and be taken to another menu (@ccess links can only be embedded in the menu - i.e work when the menu is played, not when a button is clicked). When the new menu plays, the web browser will launch over the top of the DVD player app. Therefore, in the background you could 'time out' the menu and go back to the first one almost immediately. The user would never see that happen, because the web page was in front, starting up and distracting their attention.
Since DVD@ccess is so unreliable the only way to do this would be to give the viewers the instructions on how to find the content - possibly as text on a menu - and rely on them navigating to the folder you have created and double-clicking the index.htm file (or whatever) to get it running.
All you need to do to get this set up is add your microsite as ROM content to your DVDSP project, taking care to nest the folders carefully and set the disc based URL correctly.

Flash Video Arrives in Adobe Acrobat 9

Adobe has released Acrobat 9. The newly released version now allows Flash Video contents, which makes it more powerful for business presentation.
Actually, the concept of using multimedia files in PDF documents is nothing new. In the previous versions of Acrobat, you are able to embed QuickTime video and other formats into a PDF file. But you need an external media player installed on your computer for playing the video. Now in Adobe Acrobat 9, video can be played within a PDF document with no need to have any media player installed. Thus makes it more convenience to share.
This is a challenging feature which will affect its surroundings. As we know, the similar program for business presentation, PowerPoint, now only supports video and SWF import. If you want to import an FLV file, you must convert the file to WMV, AVI, or MPEG, etc. which can be perfectly done with our product, Moyea FLV to Video Converter Pro 2.
The following passages are some notable features related to video import:
The powerful business version Adobe Acrobat Pro Extended provides more favorable features.
Deliver a compelling branded experience using PDF Portfolios
Create interactive, on-demand presentations with Adobe Presenter
Easily share video in PDF files
Share 3D designs and PDF maps
With Acrobat 9 Pro, you can insert FLV or H.264 video for direct playback in Adobe Acrobat® and Adobe Reader. New Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro even enhances Creative Suite 3.3 which is the indispensable toolkit for professional design and print production.
The Extended version provides even more powerful functions:
Easily adding audio, video, and quizzes to your PowerPoint slides and create rich, interactive presentations with Adobe Presenter (included)
Convert a variety of video formats to FLV for playback in PDF
Embed video in Microsoft Word or PowerPoint and convert to FLV in PDF
Convert 3D content to PDF for cross-platform sharing and collaboration
Combine multiple CAD formats in one assembly and save as PDF with Adobe 3D Reviewer (included)
Convert 2D and 3D designs from major CAD applications to PDF for use by extended teams without expensive CAD or viewer software
Create PDF maps by importing geospatial files that retain metadata and coordinates
In a word, Adobe 9 will totally change the communication and association of electronic files.
more information:
http://www.video-to-flash.com/
hope it can help u.

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Links to and from a Flash video?

(Sorry for the long post, trying to explain in detail what
I'm looking for ...)
Maybe you guys can tell me if this is possible using the
current version of Flash (I will not be doing this myself, but I
need to know if Flash is the way to go).
1) Embed several videos/audio files in an HTML page, with the
usual playback controls.
2) Place links or form elements (buttons) in the page *to*
those videos, allowing (via JavaScript/DOM) the user to
a) play, pause and jump to a specific (SMPTE) position in a
video.
b) loop a section of the video (by giving two positions and a
loop command)
c) change audio volume.
(I know this is normally done with controls in the video
player, but I need interaction with the page.)
3) Have links *from* the videos to the page/DOM - i.e., when
the video is running, JavaScript events should be sent to the page
to hide/load/update content - either automatically or user-driven
(by clicking on the embedded video at a certain time - if possible,
with hotspots so multiple options can be triggered; similar to a
DVD menu).
I'd like to do the same with audio. So I am basically looking
for a mechanism to link to and from real-time content.
Beyond the "Yup, possible!" I expect to hear ;) I have
another question regarding workflow.
The scenario for producing this stuff (e-learning)
will/should be something like this:
- Developer A builds a nice little audio/video player we can
embed in our pages. This will be used to show/play our content.
- Person B records video and audio, does a little post
production, delivers media/files (DV, MP3).
- Person C batch-converts the videos to FLV format, but
doesn't (have to) do any creative work.
- Person D with some HTML/JavaScript knowledge and a
stopwatch :) builds the page, embeds the player(s) and sets the
cues that will jump to certain positions. HTML pages, SWF, FLV and
MP3 files are uploaded to a plain-vanilla HTTP server.
Is this a realistic scenario? I.e., can we buy (or have
someone develop) a player so that no tinkering with Flash itself is
required anymore once we have established this workflow?
I would appreciate your comments. Also, if the above is
possible, I'd be grateful for links to showcase sites.
Thank you.

In theory - yup!
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_15683
Html pages can communicate to the flash file using
javascript. The fla page can communicate to the FLV file using
actionscript. So in theory you can send javascript commands to
flash from the html page, and then have that set off some
actionscript to control the movie.
Can I be Person C? Sounds like easy money!
Good luck. Check out the forums at www.gotoandlearn.com -
that site has a lot of creative people with a very high knowledge
of using Flash video.

Flash Video with DVD-like motion menus -- Is this possible?

Hi all,
I just joined this gropup. I have some SMIL 2.0 presentations
with synchnorized multiple audio (several languages supported) and
video as well as DVD-like still and motion menus. These are
semi-transparent menus and actually are super-imposed over main
playback area (root layout in SMIL).
Can Flash Video has menus in it?
Can this type of a/v synchronization and menuing be done in
Flash Video?
I don't want to write as SWF with menus since clips and # of
menus on screen and placement might be different from video to
video. These are for some training videos.
To give a background, in SMIL I have an application server
(Jboss) which is dynamically creating SMIL based upon database,
user inputs and menu selections. What is basically sent back to the
browser is SMIL page markup including playlist of clips up to next
menu point. Once all clips are watched and user selects menu button
to continue then a new SMIL is generated and processs repeated.
I am thinking off porting this over to Flash Video because
currently clients need RealPlayer (has SMIL 2.0) support to be
downloaded and installed. Another local app to manage!
Any ideas or recommendations?
Thanks and kindest regards,
-Mark

You can build interactive DVDs with video and audio, but no Word documents (at least not as part of the interactivity). DVD SP can certainly be used to create interactive DVDs. The advantage is that interactivity will extend to DVD players, not just computers.
If you want very rich interactive content, with Word docs, PDFs, etc. Then the best program would be Director. However there are some caveats with Director.
1) The learning curve for Director is extremely steep. You would be better off hiring a freelancer who already knows the program, then spending all the time learning all the ins and outs of the program.
2) Director is essentially a dead program. Since Adobe acquired it a couple of years ago, they have made no upgrades of the program. Nor have they made any announcements on continued development.
3) The content you develop will only be playable on computers, not DVD players.

Multiple URL's in a Flash Video

Good afternoon,
I have created a Flash Video that contains three images that fade in and out between each other. The problem I am having is I want the user to be able to click on an image and get directed to a specific URL. Each of the three images has a different URL destination. I am new to Flash & haven't been able to find a solution anywhere. Any help will be GREATLY appreciated. I am using Flash Professional CS5.
Thank You in advance

It's not that you can't do something like that with a .flv, but you still end up making a few movie clips to provide the interactivity. By embedding "cue points" in the .flv, you could trigger a movieclip (an invisible button) to appear over the top of the .flv when one image is displayed. That movieclip would serve as a button with a onRelease to getURL(AS2) or navigateToURL(AS3). This all gets compiled into a .swf anyway... but using the .flv complicates matters a little.
To skip using a .flv, just a .swf, turn each image into a movieclip (be sure they each get an instance name) and in your actions layer in the main timeline assign those getURL(AS2) or navigateToURL(AS3) actions to each movieclip (the image).
navigateToURL:
http://www.republicofcode.com/tutorials/flash/as3link/
How to create a movie clip:
http://www.heaveninteractive.com/2008/03/03/working-with-movie-clips-in-actionscript-30/
Best of luck on your project!
Adninjastrator

Need Help with ACTIONSCRIPT for Interactive Music Video

I am trying to create an interactive music video in After Effects and Flash.
The concept is that while the music video is taking place the user can decorate the hair of the woman with any of the objects they select. There will be predetermined animations and destination spots but the user can choose whatever objects they select to be delivered to the predetermined spot. I need to figure out how to let the user to select an object that will become part of the animation. I created a PDF Roughly explaining what I am trying to do. If anyone can help me I'd be very grateful as I am more versed in After Effects, I don't know ActionScript well enough to execute what I am trying to do.
Below is a rough example of what I am trying to do. There will be a music video of an animated woman singing. As she is singing the user will be able to click any of the objects , below the numbers 1-10. Below it is illustrated that the user wants to press the blue number 2. If the user presses the 2 the 2 will animate in the mouth of a bird to a predetermined pre-animated spot. I assume I need to send a movieclip to a blank holder on the timeline and use a gotoAndPlay() action ??? I am not well versed in ActionScript so any advice would help
Now whatever number (movieclip) the user chooses next needs to be placed in another blank spot in the timeline? Below the user selcts the Pink 5.
If the user just wanted to Place two "Blue 2's" then the "Blue 2's" would follow the same animated path and end up at the same predetermined space.
If the user selected just 5's and 7's they would go to the predetermined preanimated paths
How would I go about writing the Actionscript for this?

Look, I hope you don't have false expectation that by knowing one piece of AS capabilities you will be able to accomplish your task.
If I say that the code for placing one MovieClip into another is:
clip1.addChild(clip2);
will it make any difference in terms of implementation?
Also, you say "select." This may mean a lot of thing: click, drag and drop, mouse down, etc. I am saying that implementation tightly depends of definitions that you give.
I don't know the extend of your AS skills, so it is not easy to figure where to start helping. Also, forum, perhaps, is not the medium where someone will write a lot of code for you. It is good for getting answers to very specific questions and solutions. This is when you have some code in place already.
What I would suggest is to start developing a very rough concept - no video, no birds, no numbers - just a static background image of the person you have in your first post. If you advance to an application that will allow user to select a square, place the square into another one - it will be a good start.

Flash Video and sub-titling

Hi Guys,
Just like to know, if anyone has done any project with flash
video with subtitling.
I have around 20 videos of 5 mins each, I have to put the
subtitling on the videos, the text for the sub titling is available
in Excel sheets, I also have the time point for the subtitling.
Is that possible to load the text dynamically from the excel
sheet or any other format at the given time point in the flash
video.
Any tutorial available for the above topic? please provide me
the link.
Thanks in advance
regards

b_pandey,
> Just like to know, if anyone has done any project with
> flash video with subtitling.
I haven't, but I've done projects in which video had to be
synchronized
with other events.
> I have around 20 videos of 5 mins each, I have to put
> the subtitling on the videos, the text for the sub
titling is
> available in Excel sheets, I also have the time point
for
> the subtitling.
Excellent; you're all set!
> Is that possible to load the text dynamically from the
> excel sheet or any other format at the given time point
> in the flash video.
Not from an Excel sheet, no. But Flash can load text files
and Flash
can interact with databases via PHP, ASP, Cold Fusion, and
the like. Given
the time-sensitive nature of your project, however, I would
put the
subtitles right into the SWF itself.
> Any tutorial available for the above topic? please
> provide me the link.
You'll want to read about "cue points" in the documentation
and online.
Here are two tutorials I found by Googling the terms "Flash
video cue
points" ...
http://www.mediacollege.com/flash/video/cuepoints.html
http://www.actionscript4designers.com/wmg3/cuepoints_briefly.html
The second one involves screens, which you probably don't
need, but the
*concept* is, of course, the more important part. The first
tutorial is
more likely to help you.
I would put all the subtitles into an array and use the
cuePoint event,
as described in tutorial #1, to populate the same dynamic
text field over
and over again based on strings in the array.
What this means is that you'll want to familiarize yourself
with the
Array class. Start small, at first. Start a new FLA
altogether and create
nothing in it but an array.
var subtitles:Array = new Array();
Then push items into the array.
subtitles.push("Hello, Ginger.");
subtitles.push("Why, hello, Fred.");
subtitles.push("Care to dance, Ginger?");
subtitles.push("Oh, yes! Let's do!");
Then use trace() to test your understanding of how to pull
information
again from the array.
trace(subtitles[0]); // zero is the first element
trace(subtitles[1]);
trace(subtitles[2]);
// etc.
A for() loop can retrieve them all. Just substitute the
numbers for a
variable that represents numbers.
for (n=0; n<subtitles.length; n++) {
trace(subtitles[n]);
And so on. Looking up the "Array class" entry of the
ActionScript
Language Reference will teach you about the Array.length
property used in
the above sample. All class entries show the properties,
methods, and
events available to a given class. Properties are
characteristics of the
object, methods are things the object can do, and events are
things the
object can react to.
Once you understand arrays, look up the FLVPlayback in the
documentation
and/or follow along in the above tutorials. Just realize that
you'll use
the concepts described to meet your own needs. If you prefer
not to use the
FLVPlayback Component -- and you may not -- look up the Video
class, and
also the NetStream and NetConnection classes to learn how to
load FLVs
without a Component (the NetStream class features an
onCuePoint event). See
also ...
http://www.quip.net/blog/2006/flash/how-to-load-external-video
David
stiller (at) quip (dot) net
Dev essays:
http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design."

Flash Video Director Template

Hi all,
I created a page of info on the process of creating Flash
Video and
integrating them with Director. The tutorial is at:
http://www.deansdirectortutorials.com/FlashVideo/
The top part may seem basic for some. It's there to support
my students
who are using clips from YouTube in their work.
If you scroll right to the bottom, I have a FLA and DIR
template for
linking FLVs in Director. With the SWF created from the FLA
movie, and
with behaviors in the Director movie, you can dynamically
link to FLVs
and have controls to pause, play, rewind, and wait for the
end of the
FLV.
Hope it's useful to all. Let me know if anything is unclear.
And thanks to Chuck Neal who helped with the FLV behaviors.
regards
Dean
Director Lecturer / Consultant / Director Enthusiast
http://www.deansdirectortutorials.com/
http://www.multimediacreative.com.au
email: [email protected]

What I need is to be able to take flash 9, AS3 swfs, import
them into a Director 11 project, and interact with the flash
funcitons, call them, set properties, etc. Despite the
documentation on the Adobe Director page saying this is possible, I
have not been able to get it to work, and other posters on this
board have stated that it is currently not possible. Any clarity or
examples would help. I notice Director 11 has no entries concerning
Director/flash programming yet on the Adobe Developer page, just
tutorials for MX2004.

Is this interactive flash movie possible in Adobe Edge?

Hi,
I´ve done this interactive flash applikation:
http://bit.ly/Uy6GEF
Is it possible to create this exactly the same in adobe edge? If you click on a hotspot, then a 3d-video (this video is already done in a 3d-animation-software) with a transparent background appears over the car-layer and on click to "back" it softly disapears.
(For this online version, I´ve just put a compressed video into "Gasoline & Diesel system". Normally, every hotspot has a different video.
So, are those interactions possible in Edge?
Best regards,
Maw

Everything except for the alpha transparency video is easily doable in Edge.
Rather then trying to shoehorn html5 video with an alpha transparency into Edge (not sure if this is doable), you could potentially use a png sequence or spriteSheet to play back those animations. Though the file size will be very large, and Edge does not have native implementation for png sequences or spriteSheet playback. yet.
John Dunning built a plugin for Fireworks to export a spritesheet as an Edge symbol:
http://johndunning.com/fireworks/about/EdgeAnimate

Need advice on making a simple Flash video file. Trying to accomplish two things.

I have some video files (.avi) that I am trying to convert to a Flash video format. I am trying to export it to a Flash player to go into a Powerpoint file. With this, I am trying to accomplish two goals:
1. To have the short clip (15sec, 30fps) endlessly loop, like an animated .gif.
2. To allow the user to click on the video player and drag left/right to ff/rew.
The video itself is a turntable animation. One of our products is making a complete 360degree turn. By allowing the user to grab and drag, it will simulate them rotating the model.
So far, I have already accomplished Goal 1. I made a new Actionscript 3 file, imported video (embed flv in swf and play in timeline), and then made the video loop on the timeline. This seems to export properly, and the video loops as needed. The only thing I can't figure out is how to make the video "interactive" and let the user drag left/right.
For context, I have never used Flash before. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

This will come down to essentially moving the playhead of Flash based on the movement of the mouse. It's certainly not going to be smooth however, you'd need a timer to be responsible for moving your playhead and reversing spatial compression is very CPU intensive (moving backwards on the timeline). I'd recommend having a forward and backward version of the video so you could flip between them but if you're new to flash you're already in way above your head.
Add a new layer and try adding this example script (or Download Source example here, saved to CS5):
import flash.utils.Timer;
import flash.events.TimerEvent;
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
// make sure we don't trip this frame twice
if (!stage.hasEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN))
          // stop playhead
          stop();
          // set state (forwards? backwards?)
          var movingForward:Boolean = true;
          var curFrame:int = 1;
          var mouseStartX:int; // used later to determine drag
          // detect mouse click and drag left or right
          stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, onMouseF);
          stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, onMouseF);
          // create new timer to control playhead, start it
          var phTimer:Timer = new Timer(33,0);
          phTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, movePlayheadF);
          phTimer.start();
          // function to control playhead
          function movePlayheadF(e:TimerEvent):void
                    curFrame += movingForward ? 1 : -1;
                    // validate frame (60 total frames)
                    if (curFrame > this.totalFrames) curFrame = 2;
                    else if (curFrame < 1) curFrame = this.totalFrames;
                    // goto the next frame
                    this.gotoAndStop(curFrame);
          // function that controls the direction variable
          function onMouseF(e:MouseEvent):void
                    if (e.type == MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN)
                              // user started touching, record start spot
                              mouseStartX = int(stage.mouseX);
                    else if (e.type == MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP)
                              // user let mouse go, determine direction change (swipe stype)
                              if (stage.mouseX > mouseStartX)
                                        // swiped right, move forwards
                                        movingForward = true;
                                        trace('Moving forward now');
                              else if (stage.mouseX < mouseStartX)
                                        // swiped left, move backwards
                                        movingForward = false;
                                        trace('Moving backwards now');
This is pretty simple. In the example source link above an object on the timeline (nice ugly red circle) moves right over 60 frames and then left over 60 frames (120 total). Consider that your movie.
A timer ticks at a speed of 33ms (30fps). This is where it isn't necessarily going to be too smooth with video. If you increase it to 60FPS then decrease the timer by half (16.5ms), season to taste. Each time the timer goes off the playhead is moved, either forwards or backwards.
To know if it should go forward or backwards a simple variable (movingForward) keeps track of the last 'swipe'. The swipe is simply captured when a user touches the screen (mouse/finger), moves in a direction and then lets up. If they moved to the left the direction will be reverse. If they moved to the right it will move forward. This doesn't take into consideration any more than that logic, but illustrates how you can watch the mouse for movement and "do something" based on it.
A very simple validatior in the timer event function checks to see if the next frame (in either direction) is valid and if it's not, it corrects it so it stays within your videos timeline length.
Note there is a MOUSE_MOVE event you can try to hook to which can be used to literally let the user drag the video forwards and backwards the amount they drag their finger/cursor. Also if this is some kind of circular surface like a record spinning, the direction the user moves the mouse based on where they touch the record would change which direction they expect it to move. Etc etc..
That should get your feet wet in how much you need to consider for your project.

Stop Flash videos from looping

Does anyone have a fix for looping Flash videos? I have
produced some Flash videos with Camtasia. They don't loop anywhere
else (including the preview function built into Presenter within
Powerpoint), but they do loop when published. Thanks.

Good call Leo!
This is a well known artifact of dropping swfs into the
Presenter
environment...and for what it's worth, there's another work
around to that "bug" in the following way:
Rather than having all of your animations occuring on the
main timeline in Flash, what you might want to explore is
converting *everything* into movie clips; this way, you can totally
control what happens (and when) based on user interaction.
As an example, I have a sample demo you can view on my site
here:
http://robrode.com/Breeze_demos/myIdentity/index.htm
If you advance to slide 17 of that presentation, what you'll
see is the slide set up and the flash anim located on the lower
section of the slide will just park on frame one. It's only when
you click the thumbnails that the additional animated objects
become visible.
The point in all of this is that more you keep things OFF the
main timeline, the better. Granted, this example is set up such
that we're asking the learner to explore stuff, but with nested
movie clips in Flash, so long as you know how to "call" the movie
clips, you can totally control the playback of your flash content.
Hope that helps!
Rob
Visit my Breeze/Presenter forums!
http://www.robrode.com/yabb/
http://robrode.blogspot.com/

Flash Video / Layers

Hey good people,
I'm running into a strange problem. I have a site built in
layers - there are rollovers buttones which show different bits of
work, the usual hide & show layer trick - nothing new there.
However I have added a Flash video file to a layer (which in the
layer panel is below the image ones) - However when checking the
site on Browsers Safari & IE the video layer file for some
reason jumps to the front and plays - rather than seeing the first
image layer. The video layer in DW is on the 5th hide & show
layer button - so shouldn't be the 1st thing you see when looking
at it in the browswer. The site works in Mozilla, Firefox and
Camino though. Any ideas anyone - this is a real head spinner..!!
For tech info I'm running DW2004 on OSX. I've check this on a
PC and the same thing happens.. any ideas??
Any help would be welcome as I hope to launch the site very
soon.
many thanks
T

Don't confuse using layers to add interactivity (what you
call using
Hide/Show), with using layers to layout the page. It's the
latter approach
that is not best practice.
If you need for something to appear when requested by the
user, then
revealing a previously hidden layer is one perfectly
acceptible way of doing
this. But by virtue of the use of layers at all, one is
buying into the
unique qualities that layers have, some of which can wreck a
carefully
crafted layout (even when only used in a Hide/Show mode). The
point here is
that as with anything else, the magnificent convenience of
layers extracts a
heavy price, one that you may not be prepared or willing to
accept. If you
don't know about what that price is, then you will be in for
some unpleasant
surprises.
By the way, magazine tutorials are not necessarily the most
authoritative
sources for 'best practice' tips. To be honest, most of those
I have
learned, have been learned right here on the DW forum.....
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> to Murray *Ace*
>
> Thanks for the advice, really didnt expect a fully
explained one, so many
> thanks for your time on that.
>
> But to your Q's getting into Web design os a slight
career shift, I'll
> still
> be doing print -but want as well as design for web I
want to know about
> the
> 'rights and wrongs'. I buy industry mags such as .Net
and Web Developer
> (UK
> based mags) So that I'm up to par and on the right lines
in all lastest
> issues.
> I am self taught using Peach Pit books and have been
dabbling since DW4.
>
> Also when I design, I always use 'split view' - contary
to belief even as
> a
> designer as prefer to 'see' what code is going on at the
same time - in
> addition to that I kind of know my way round HTML - well
I know the
> basics.
> Where I think I come unstuck is best practice scenarios
- like I mentioned
> I
> thought using 'Hide/Show layers' was a standard practice
- the above
> mentioned
> magazines always have tutorials and they don't mention
NOT to use this
> method -
> therefore I thought it was OK. I'm far from an expert in
DW or in fact
> HTML so
> I'm going on other peoples teachings to get things
right. And in using the
> 'Hide/Show' technique I wanted to move away from using
the old 'tables'
> method,
> which I'm sure I'd be beaten aroud the head for by you
guys! So in your
> opinon
> which is the best way forward for me to design the page
or in fact the
> site -
> what would be your suggesting. In designing websites
what I belief I need
> is
> some sort of guidance, just so that I know I'm on the
right(eous) path!
>
> My next stage is educating myself with CSS which
admittedly all I know are
> the
> real basics, such as linking, type styles and colours.
>
> Many thanks in advance again - I am truly indebted to
your time and
> efforts in
> this.
>
>
> Alan Smithee Jr.
> Thanks for your comments too - it's been taken on board
and the changes
> are in
> being undertaken as of this moment.
> many thanks for your time.
>

[RANT]Flash video playback

Full screen flash video playback is much smoother in my virtualized Windows XP(qemu-kvm) compared to my native Arch setup(Radeon 4350, open ati drivers). This is flipping crazy. Why Adobe, why!?

It's pretty much universally accepted that this is Adobe's fault for not putting enough of an effort into Flash for Linux. I with that agree to a large extent - for a start they need to enable hardware acceleration as a top priority. I am running an Nvidia ION on an Atom 330 with x64; now, this thing should be able to play fullscreen SD video regardless, hardware acceleration or not - yet fullscreen flash still kills it, which is a real disappointment and the only think that sometimes makes me wish I had taken the windows 7 option (and I've been using Arch for over 6 years!)
That said, I don't think it is fair to put all the blame in Adobes court. The writers of flash video players have to do some answering too. For example, here in the UK the BBC iplayer plays fine in full screen for me - nice and smooth, while the Channel 4 player is unwatchable. Likewise for lots of flash video on the Internet, some are good and some are bad - all Adobes fault? I think not (although I'll give then 80% of the blame).
Here's is a great hack as a workaround though... Ignore conventional wisdom, enable composite extensions and install compiz-complete. Once you have it up and running enable the 'Zoom Desktop' plugin. Now you can draw a window around your in-browser video and Compiz will magically zoom it to full screen, and it will remain completely smooth (this is sort of a hardware acceleration hack I suppose!).
The down side is that you cannot interact with the player while it is zoomed in, but it removes the problem of slow video completely.
Score!
Dan.
Last edited by DanGray (2010-03-21 14:35:42)

Flash Video Issue in window 8.1

We are using 25/30 system running with window
8.1 professional (64 bit ) .we have an intranet site (w3.infratelworld.in) and
uploaded some flash video on it and the
same video is working on window 7/8 professional (In any Browser) but it is not
working on win 8.1 even we have tried on Mozilla and Chrome but it's not
working and we are not getting any error too
So Please support for the Same ASAP.

Flash Player in Windows 8.1 get updates through Microsoft Update, so you may try run Windows Update and make sure latest version of Flash Player been installed.
You may visit this website for more help regarding to Flash Player:
http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player.html

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