? play multiple videos simultanously with a single control bar ?

I have 4 live f4vs that I'm using with interactive server 3.5. Thus they are running in dvr. I'm trying to find a way to control all 4 videos so that when you go back on one video all 4 videos go back to the same time. This is very important with camera 4 as it is the only one with sound.
I have tried putting all 4 videos in one swf file and I have tried putting each video as its own swf. So far I can't figure out how to do it, any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
stjc3
I know something similar was listed previously at
http://forums.adobe.com/message/64579
But the link to the solution is bad
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=15&catid=194&threadid =1292827&enterthread=y

Thanks for the quick responce.
The streams are very close to being in sync but they tend to be about half a second to a couple of seconds out of sync. I tried using the timecode in fmle but when I do that it seems to mess up the dvr feature and kill 2 or more streams so that you can only watch old data and not new.
So... Will it still work if they are mostly insync? If so how do I customize the seekbar?
Also are there any extra steps I need to take since The size of the file will continue to increase while the player is in use?
Thanks again
stjc3

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What I want to use is one video track with alternate audio tracks in a set level manifest and play this using HTTP Live streaming. I'm using the manifest mentioned here :
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pantos-http-live-streaming-07#section-8.7
Since I do not use playlists, I am not familiar with the approach in your example. If I want alternate audio and/or video tracks, I create standalone video files with these features built in. Nor do I use RTSP if that is what you mean by "live streaming" of content. If I want to "stream" the content, I use "Fast Start" files programmed to open in the QT player app which supports these features or create reference or QT Media Link files that do the same thing.
As you mentioned, Safari on my iPhone is playing the default/first alternate audio track mentioned but not giving an option to switch tracks.
Neither Safari nor the Video app GUIs on your iPhone have a built in switching option. The only way to switch to alternate audio tracks is to do so with QT 7 Pro or possibly iTunes before loading or streaming the video file. (Am still speaking about a standalone file here and not a programmed playlist/RTSP switch.)
However Quick time on my Mac machine only plays the audio with the the video stream and not the alternate audio track.
The QT player app GUI only switches between tracks that are stored as part of the standalone file. Basically, QT files may contain up to 99 individual data tracks. In alternative audio videos, multiple audio tracks are added to the file by an editor like QT 7 Pro but only one track is designated as "active." All other tracks are designated as "inactive." The QT player GUI allows the viewer to select which audio track he or she wants to hear and then turns off the current audio track and turns on the selected audio track. Otherwise all active tracks would play simultaneously.
Is there a way to switch tracks on my iPhone on Safari?
As previously noted, the default track can be manually changed by QT 7 Pro or, I believe, iTunes (used to have this capability) before actually loading or streaming content.
Does quicktime have this capability?
As far as I know, only with regard to stand alone files programmed with multiple alternate tracks. I am not a HTML, HTML5, or Java programmer so I assume there may be web alternatives here but they would be beyond the scope of my expertise.
Do you know any free player that can do this?
Again, I don't use either playlists or RTSP so I've never had a need to look for/use alternative players that might meet your needs. I simply find it easier to build files that work correctly in current player app/device GUIs already having these capabilities.
Or the very last option, can I build a player to do this? If yes can you suggest where/how I start?
Once again, I assume this might be possible but not part of my experience since, for my part, easier work flows are available.

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sandyaudiovisual,
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Yes, it appears that actually streaming multiple streams of video while visibly playing in synchronization simultaneously will be very difficult.
So, I was thinking that as an alternative, I could pre-mix the multiple "streams" of video into just one video. E.g., a single video file, with for example five squares each with a different video inside of it. So to the view, in a sense, it looks like five streaming videos in sync.
What I would then want to do, in that situation, is be able to mute/solo an audio track associated with each "video". In reality, it would be a single video channel, with five audio channels, switchable while maintaining synchronicity. Though the extra wiggle is that rather than simply switching between 1 and 5, it would be preferable to actually mix in/out channels 1-5, so that at any time, 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 audio channels would be playing, in synchronicity, and could be muted/soloed.
To give a visual idea, there would likely be a mute and solo button composited on top of each "video" box inside the main video.
It would be easier if we could actually stream five separate video files and have them be in sync, with all stopping to wait should one need to rebuffer, and all sharing the same transport controls, because then if we want to swap out one video, we just swap that file, rather than remake the entire file in Final Cut or whatever. But this is sounding less and less possible.

Playing multiple videos in sequence

Hello all. I'm a complete newbie to Flash development, but
have been thrown into it with not just a deadline, but a (to me)
"complex" project. I have a Flash project which currently opens and
plays a video as part of whats on "the stage". I now need to add 2
more videos which will play, in sequence, after the first one
finishes. I've gone through the tutorials, read the help files, and
now I'm just feeling a bit "DUH" because I still can't figure out
how to do this. Anybody out there care to help a poor ol' graphics
guy avoid the bitter wrath of his boss?

A single instance of FLVPlayback can handle multiple videos.
I can't remember what the upper limit is. So you can switch between
them based on user input. But I believe it can only ever play one
at any one time. I've used FLVPlayback quite a lot but not for what
you're describing, so can't answer from direct experience.
Check out this page, and the trivial example at the end
(whether its streaming or progressive is irrelevant here, streaming
should work just as well, but perhaps you need to use SMIL files
for the streaming contentPath?)
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/00002980.html#wp3780233

Playback of Multiple Videos Simultaneously -- onCuePoint

Hello AS3 Gurus!
I have multiple instances of a video playback object (not an FLVPlayback component) on my stage (named "videoScreen1", "videoScreen2", etc...). I have separate NetConnections, NetStreams, and NetStatusEvent handlers set up for each of the video instances. Everything works fine (playback of each video in each instance happens as expected and the NetStatusEvent handlers fire off, as expected, for each of the video streams) except I cannot figure out how to separately keep track of the OnCuePoints events for each of the video streams.
Right now, I have just one onCuePoint function that reacts to the cuepoint info for all the streams at once (with the following code). This misses some of the cuepoints since it seems that it gets a bit confused as to how to handle all the onCuePoint events that fire off from all of the video streams. What I would like is to have separate onCuePoint functions set-up that react to only one stream. That is, have one onCuePoint function react to the video streaming on my "videoScreen1" video object, another that is reacting to my "videoScreen2" video object, etc... How can I do this?
function onCuePoint(cpInfo:Object):void {
     var key:String;
     for (key in cpInfo) {
         trace(key + ": " + cpInfo[key]);
Or, should my question be: "What is the best way to handle the simultaneous playback of multiple video streams and keep track of onCuePoint (and onMetaData) events for each of the streaming videos?"
Any input would, as always, be most appreciated.
Regards,
ropeGun

Hi!
I have had - and still seem to have the same problem. QuickTime 7 will start stuttering after the first change, ie. after the first movie. If you pause playback on and off, the current film will play perfectly - until the next change in the playlist. Then the problem reaccurs.
I cured the situation by going back to QT 6.5.2, where everything works just fine... but you have to do without a lot of nice stuff that QT7 has.
Also remember that QuickTime only supports a subset of SMIL, not all commands.
MacMinis, XServe, Dual 867 G4, Dual 2.5 GHz G5 Mac OS X (10.4.2)

? play multiple videos simultanously with a single control bar ?

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