Load FLV into FLVPlayback component?

I have an array of videos coming from an XML doc. I am getting the name of my video in the trace statement okay, but am not sure how to go about loading the FLV video into the player. I have an FLVPlayback component on the interface named "video". The video I'm going to load will be ("videos/" + videoArray[0])). What is the proper way in AS 3 to load this video?

var start:Number = 0;
var videoConnection:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
videoConnection.connect(null);
var aStream:NetStream = new NetStream(videoConnection);
aStream.play("myvideo.flv");
aStream.pause();
I hope this will help you

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out:
http://www.gotoandlearn.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4891
http://www.gotoandlearn.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1264
http://www.gotoandlearn.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1376
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is really good for FLV related issues.

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way of how to do this.
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Is the problem in the actionscript or in the PHP?
IE - did you trace out the "video" variable to know that it
is getting there?
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contentPath of myFLVPlayer after it is set to make sure that things
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Loading FLV via PHP

Gang,
I've been unable to find any solution - or even a solid
explanation - for this problem anywhere.
I've built a custom FLV player that needs to rely on a PHP
script to serve it FLV files in order to control access to those
files. My player uses the FLVPlayback component.
My actionscript makes a call like this to the PHP script:
my_player.contentPath = "resource.php?id=12345"
I've also tried...
my_player.load("resource.php?id=12345");
The resource.php code in question looks something like this:
header('Content-Type: video/x-flv');
readfile("my_video.flv");
When tested, the FLVPlayback component simply won't accept
the FLV served up to it in this way. It WILL work if loading
directly from the file system, so I know my actionscript works. I
can load just about any other type of file into Flash this way,
including JPG and SWF. FLV is the only format that doesn't work.
I've added the video/x-flv MIME Type to all test servers I've
tried this on, so the server should recognize the file.
So here's the question: How can I get my PHP script to serve
the FLV to my FLVPlayback-based player?
Thanks,
J

Solved!
The root cause was that the FLV served up by the PHP script
was being sent to Flash with a .php file extension, which the
FLVPlayback component doesn't seem to like. The root solution,
therefore, was to rename the PHP script with a .flv exension, as
outlined below.
The files in the "resources/" folder:
resources/
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-- test.xxx (a renamed FLV file)
-- resource.flv (a renamed PHP script)
The .htaccess file:
AddType application/x-httpd-php .flv
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$filename = "test.xxx";
header('Content-Type: video/x-flv');
header('Length: ' . filesize($filename));
header('Content-Disposition: attachment;
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$fd = fopen($filename, "r");
while(!feof($fd)) {
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video.load("[server]/resources/resource.flv");
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at least it works.
J

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