Making a flash media file

Hi im making a site and I want to insert a flash file into
it. With what program can I create a flash file that I will be able
to insert into my site? Thanks

SirEskimooo wrote:
> Hi im making a site and I want to insert a flash file
into it. With what program can I create a flash file that I will be
able to insert into my site? Thanks
Er, Flash?
http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/flashpro/
I've heard some talk about Swish, too, but don't know if it's
exactly
comparable or how it competes price-wise.
Bonnie
in California
8 ^ )

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Making change to media file

Here's the scenario:
I captured an hour long segment and its about 20 frames out of sync with the audio all the way through. I have synced the video back up with the audio (in the timeline) and want to apply this change to the media file. I believe I read somewhere in the user manual how to do this but cannot find it now. Anyone know how to do this?
Thanks,
Jared

Click the clip in the timeline:
Are the clipnames on the clip in the timeline itself all underlined?
If yes: Press 2 times Command-L to unlink and then relink the clips.
If No: Press 1 time Command-L to relink the clip.
FCP will now keep them sync.
But to be hounostly: That is a poor workaround, make one mistake in your timeline during editing and it won't work anymore.
So it's better to Export your synced timeline (Export > Quicktime movie), with current settings. and re-import that. But by doing so, be aware of the following:
You can make it a reference movie: Make sure not to delete the original file from the disk. The reference movie is only a pointer to the original file.
You can also make this syned clip as a selfcontained movie. Now you have a new Quicktime file that is sync. You may delete the original.
And actually first off all:
Make sure you find the cause of this 20! frames out of sync!
You won't be happy to need to 'repair' every time.
Rienk

A User Count in a Flash Media Server Application

hello guys, first of all, sorry for my english...
i am making a flash media server application and i want users to see that how many users are currently connected to this application...
i have searched on google for 2 days and i couldnt find a good tutorial for AS3.
i have looked at fmsguru and some other tutorial websites but those wasn't enough for me to succes...
what i am trying to make is; a text area or dynamic text (i dont know which is most suitable for this purpose) which shows the numbers of connected user and i want it change immediately when a user connects or disconnects...
i know there is an array as "application.clients" and i know i should use "application.clients.length" in "main.asc" file to find the number of connected users BUT i can't get this number to the text area or dynamic text in my "swf file".
PLEASE help me by explaining a simple application which uses a "main.asc" file, an "action script" file and a "swf" file. and how to get the number of "application.clients.length", how to send (or call or get) it to the "action script" file, how to show this number in a text field or dynamic text...
i will be very appreciated if someone explain in AS3 and make me success...
thanks for reading...

well here you don't even need the button just tell your textfield to update everytime the server calls after a connection or disconnection. Do you know how to write actionscript at all? Because you would be well advised not to attempt media server stuff unless you know how to do the basics. Maybe you could start out with some client only applications.
import mx.controls.TextArea;
import mx.controls.Button;
import mx.utils.Delegate;
class SimpleChat_call extends MovieClip {
private var myTextArea:TextArea;
private var myButton:Button;
private var _nc:NetConnection;
private var _chatSO:SharedObject;
private function onLoad() {
myButton.addEventListener("click", Delegate.create(this, onUserCount));
public function connect( rtmpString:String) {
_nc = new NetConnection();
_nc.owner = this;
_nc.onStatus = function ( info ) {
if(info.code == "NetConnection.Connect.Success") {
trace("connected successfully");
this.owner.connectSO( this );
_nc.receiveUsercount = function (count) {
var myTextArea = this.owner.myTextArea;
myTextArea.text = count;
_nc.connect(rtmpString);
private function connectSO( nc ) {
_chatSO.connect( nc );
you didn't even try what i suggested did you because it would have worked without changing the client

Using Flash Media player to play files run from a database

Hello all,
I have a dynamic webpage which is connected to a MySQL
database displaying dynamic information stored in a MySQL table.
One additional field I have added is a 'video' field in which
the path to a flash video file is displayed.
I have a number of user (each user corresponds to a row in
the table) pictures which are stored in a folder, but the paths to
which are stored in the database.Using Dreamweaver, I can drag the
dynamic binding onto the image place holder and then it will lift
the corresponding image from the table, but the flash video player
doesn't seem to allow me to do this.
I would like to do something similar for flash videos, but
I'm not sure how to do it. Whenever I add a flash movie through the
media player I need to specify the path - which will change
depending on what entry in the table is being viewed.
I have created my websites only with dreamweaver and can't
program which probably explains why I've got no idea what to do.
Hope I made sense - will gladly clarify or send you my code.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Adam

Make sure that your database has the full path and that you
are tetsing in
the browser. You won't be able to see anything in DW
Paul Whitham
Certified Dreamweaver MX2004 Professional
Adobe Community Expert - Dreamweaver
Valleybiz Internet Design
www.valleybiz.net
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> Thanks - I inserted the media player which came with
Dreamweaver 8 and
> the
> following code was generated:
>
> <object
classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
> codebase="
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#ve
> rsion=8,0,0,0" width="130" height="98"
id="FLVPlayer">
> <param name="movie" value="FLVPlayer_Progressive.swf"
/>
> <param name="salign" value="lt" />
> <param name="quality" value="high" />
> <param name="scale" value="noscale" />
> <param name="FlashVars"
>
value="&MM_ComponentVersion=1&skinName=Corona_Skin_1&streamName=videos/naomi3&au
> toPlay=false&autoRewind=false" />
> <embed src="FLVPlayer_Progressive.swf"
>
flashvars="&MM_ComponentVersion=1&skinName=Corona_Skin_1&streamName=videos/naomi
> 3&autoPlay=false&autoRewind=false"
quality="high" scale="noscale"
> width="130"
> height="98" name="FLVPlayer" salign="LT"
> type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
> pluginspage="
http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
/>
> </object>
>
> I attempted to replace 'videos/naomi3' (the file is at
video/naomi.flv)
> with
> <?php echo $row_d['video']; ?>(this is the field
of the sql table in which
> the
> location to the flv file is located, but nothing
happened (no video
> appeared).
>
> The mysql table is set up properly as I can view image
files which are
> linked
> to by paths in the MySQL table so the problem can't be
that.
>
> Thanks
>

Flash media server taking forever to load large files

We purchased FMIS and we are encoding large 15+ hour MP4 recordings using flash media encoder. When opening these large files for playback, which have not been opened recently the player displays the loading indicator for up to 4 minutes! Once it has apparently been cached on the server it opens immediately from any browser even after clearing local browser cache. So a few questions for the experts
1. Why is it taking so long to load the file. Is it because the MP4 metadata is in the wrong format and the file is so huge? I read somewhere that Media Encoder records with incorrect MP4 metadata is that still the case?
2. Once its cached on the server, exactly how much of it is cached. Some of these files are larger than 500mb.
3. What fms settings do you suggest I change. FMIS is running on windows server R2 64 bit, but FMIS itself is 32 bit. We have not upgraded to the 64 bit version. We have 8GB of ram. Is it OK to set FMS cache to 3GB. And would that only have enough room for 3-4 large files, because we have hundreds of them.
best,
Tuviah
Lead programmer, solid state logic inc

Hi Tuviah,
You may want to email me offline about more questions here as it can get a little specific but I'll hit the general problems here.
MP4 is a fine format, and I won't speak ill of it, but it does have weaknesses. In FMS implementation those weaknesses tend to manifest around the combination of recording and very large files, so some of these things are a known issue.
The problem is that MP4 recording is achieved through what's called MP4 fragmentation. It's a part of the MP4 spec that not every vendor supports, but has a very particular purpose, namely the ability to continually grow an MP4 style file efficiently. Without fragments one has the problem that a large file must be constantly rewritten as a whole for updating the MOOV box (index of files) - fragments allow simple appending. In other words it's tricky to make mp4 recording scalable (like for a server ) and still have the basic MP4 format - so fragments.
There's a tradeoff to this however, in that the index of the file is broken up over the whole file. Also likely these large files are tucked away on a NAS for you or something similar. Normal as you likely can't store all of them locally. However that has the bad combo of needing to index the file (touching parts of the whole thing) and doing network reads to do it. This is likely the cause of the long delay you're facing - here are some things you can do to help.
1. Post process the F4V/MP4 files into non fragmented format - this may help significantly in load time, though it could still be considered slow it should increase in speed. Cheap to try it out on a few files. (F4V and MP4 are the same thing for this purpose - so don't worry about the tool naming)
http://www.adobe.com/products/flashmediaserver/tool_downloads/
2. Alternatively this is why we created the raw: format. For long recording mp4 is just unideal and raw format solves many of the problems involved in doing this kind of recording. Check it out
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/flashmediaserver/devguide/WSecdb3a64785bec8751534fae12a16ad027 7-8000.html
3. You may also want to check out FMS HTTP Dynamic Streaming - it also solves this problem, along with others like content protection and DVR and it's our most recent offering in tech, so it has a lot of strengths the other areas don't.
http://www.adobe.com/products/httpdynamicstreaming/
Hope that helps,
Asa

Can't seem to stream (RTMP) an FLV file in Flash Media Playback from the Amazon Cloud

I seem to be having trouble streaming any FLV file using RTMP from the Amazon Cloud. Other file formats (i.e., MP4, F4V) seem to work just fine.
I tried using your Flash Media Playback demo page and still had the same problem:
http://www.osmf.org/configurator/fmp/
Without publicly displaying the actual connection path here, this is what I am using for the Video Source (URL):
rtmp://xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.cloudfront.net/cfx/st/_definst_/MyVideo.flv
If I change the "MyVideo.flv" to "mp4:MyVideo.f4v", for example, then it works. But when I try to reference any FLV file that I have located on the Amazon Cloud then it just shows continuous buffering.
The FLV files that I am trying to use with both the Strobe and Flash Media Playback(s) all stream just fine when I connect to them via other Flash based applications/players that I have.
Do you have any suggestions?
Thank you very much.

Hello,
The link to the previous post does not seem to apply or help in this case. Please let me know if I am wrong.
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Flash Media Playback configurator swf file size

Hello,
I just start using the Flash Media Playback configurator : http://www.osmf.org/configurator/fmp/ and I am very surprised that the size of the swf file is less than 2KB. The swf file used is http://fpdownload.adobe.com/strobe/FlashMediaPlayback.swf
How did you compile it to make it so small ? It is based on OSMF ?
Usually the swf file's size of a flash video player based on OSMF seems to be greater. For example the swf file used on page http://www.osmf.org/ (http://www.osmf.org/strobe1_0/StrobeMediaPlayback.swf) is about 193KB or on page http://osmf.org/dev/1.6gm/setup.html (http://osmf.org/dev/1.6gm/StrobeMediaPlayback.swf) is about 422KB.
Thanks in advance.
Thomas

Hi,
Thanks for the quick reply Gelu. I emptied the cache of my web browser and had a look at all http requests (with Charles proxy and Firebug) sent when loading the page http://www.osmf.org/configurator/fmp/. The only .swf loaded I can see is http://fpdownload.adobe.com/strobe/FlashMediaPlayback.swf.
Is there another cache involved ?
Thanks,
Thomas

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alright. so I am an after effects guy with no experience in
flash, although i do have cs3 including flash. (working on a mac).
long story short... i have a keynote presentation (or i can
convert to ppt) that is completed. I have swf videos i placed in
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ive tried different videos, different codecs, everything. Ive
tried using a new project in keynote with one page that has nothing
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but the tricky part is... the presentation must be manually
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i open up flash, and realize how much i have no idea what im
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do i add? do i add a new layer to the timeline? ive been banging my
head and gotten nowhere.
when i originally exported from keynote to quicktime, it
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Hi Guys,
Fixed it.
I followed steps I found regarding this similar problem from another forum which I'll post here:
1 - change the extension of the fla to zip so you can unzip the fla into its folder structure (flv).
2 - within the LIBRARY folder, there is likely some asset that is causing the problem. you must figure out which one (or more) it is. you can do this by simply removing files from that folder until your file opens successfully (open the flv file in the root).
3 - once you have the xml files that are causing the problem, you can actually fix them by going in and removing the empty frames. in mine, the part of the xml i removed looked like this:
<DOMLayer name="Layer 2" color="#9933CC" current="true" isSelected="true">
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hi
I want to use flash media playback http://www.adobe.com/products/flashmediaplayback/ to play some local FLV files on our intranet but it doesnt seem to work with local files
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Hey sdalek,
It's actually not all sites. I've found a few that work. I'll have a look for any difference in implementation to try to narrow down the issue.
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