Looping FLV stutters.

Question

Hi All,
I'm experiencing a frustrating issue. Any help would be greatly appreciated:
I am looping a FLV (with Alpha) in a SWF. The FLV is an animation created in After Effects. In After Effects the animation was created to loop seemlessly (no jerk or stutter...a smooth repetitive cycle), however, when I loop it with the SWF, it stops for a split second at the end of its 8 second run before it starts over again. How can I make it loop smoothly without that stutter when it begins again?
I'm using Flash CS5.5. I export the flv from After effects and link that from the swf. Here's the Actionscript3 code I'm using to play and loop the flv:
import fl.video.*;
//Video component instance name
var flvControl:FLVPlayback = display;
var flvSource:String = "loopingFlv.flv";
//Loop the video when it completes
function completeHandler(e:fl.video.VideoEvent):void
flvControl.seek(0);
flvControl.play()
flvControl.addEventListener(fl.video.VideoEvent.COMPLETE, completeHandler);
//Set video
flvControl.source = flvSource;
Here is the short animation for you to see:
http://home.comcast.net/~samiri/director/mortals/froggy/loopingFlv.swf
-you can see the stutter every 8 seconds. (I'd also like it to start moving upon load...without that initial pause...but maybe that's too much to ask.)
Thanks for the help!

Answer 1

Kglad,
I've encountered a glitch that I believe is due to my looping code based upon your code above. Below is a stripped-down version of my movie that demonstrates the problem: The child MC with the looping code in it will vanish. This happens only intermittently (maybe every other browser reload or so after somewhere between 4 and 40 secs).
I didn’t notice the problem before because it only happens in .swf mode (when viewed thru a browser). I never see the problem in authoring mode. I’m hoping you might have some insight about how to prevent the 'vanishing MC' problem so I can use your code which does a great job of seamlessly looping my FLV animated movie clips.
Here’s the bare-bones test swf:
http://home.comcast.net/~samiri/director/mortals/froggy/index2.html
-I linked the source files from the top of that page, if you have time to test it.
What I’m doing:
I put the following code on an layer in frame 1 of a child movie clip. This movie clip has a FLVPlayback component in it called, ‘childMovieClip.’
import fl.video.*;
var index:int = 0;
childMovieClip.addEventListener(fl.video.VideoEvent.COMPLETE, completeHandler);
childMovieClip.source = "central_2.flv";
childMovieClip.play();
readyNextPlayerF();
function completeHandler(e: fl.video.VideoEvent): void
    childMovieClip.play();
    childMovieClip.visibleVideoPlayerIndex = index;
    readyNextPlayerF();
function readyNextPlayerF():void
    index++;
    output1.text = "loop index: " + index; // For troubleshooting output to stage
   childMovieClip.activeVideoPlayerIndex = index;
    childMovieClip.source = "central_2.flv"; //assign the source
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Message was edited by: paul_james123