SMIL File / Flash Video Object / Netstream

Hi all!
I have build a streaming video player bassed on the flash Video Object and netstream. The company that provides the streaming have now gone over to Dynamic Streaming and uses SMIL files. Usually this is not a problem if i had used a FLVPlayback component, But now that my player is a Video Object i just can't get it to work.
I don't want to rebuild the entire player based on FLVPlayback component since the current play have many functions.
Have anyone built a Dynamic player based on Video object? Anyone that can help me with this?
Oh yeay. I use AS2 I know i'm going over to AS3 but this player in built in as2
Looking forward to see how this can be solved

Hi,
I don't think there is a direct way of using SMIL files with Video Object like it can be used with FLVPlayback component.
Also its much easier to accomplish dynamic streaming using AS3 than AS2.
With the current AS2 implementation you might have to parse the contents of smil file store the details of different bitrate media available in the FMS app.
Some amount of coding would be needed to leverage the QoS metrics which can be accessed from NetStream object when Flash Player 10 is used. And then based on what the metrics indicate pick an appropriate bitrate file to switch to.
This article mentions how to use AS2 for dynamic streaming : http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashmediaserver/articles/dynstream_actionscript.html
Hoping to see if anyone else have tried to do it already so that it may prove helpful to you.
In case you are looking to port your video player to AS3 , here are some useful links:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashmediaserver/articles/dynstream_advanced_pt1.html
Now there is also an Open Source Media Framework which you can leverage to build media players easily.
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/video_osmf_streaming.html
Regards
Mamata

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ns.play(
"sample.flv");
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Janaki L

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Make them FLV files (Flash video). In DW use INSERT | Media
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> I'd like to build a page with 3 Flash videos and make
the user click
> "Play"
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Previously I've
> limited
> each page to one video and it starts automatically.
>

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ewon15,
> well i'm using actionscript 2.0 ... i have not had a
chance
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No worries. :) It just makes a difference in regard to
whatever
snippets or samples would be helpful to you.
> i'm not sure what you mean when you ask me if there is
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When the FLV file is encoded, it may or may not have
additional
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artist's name,
etc. If your FLV has no metadata, then the
NetStream.onMetaData event won't
be prompted to do anything.
> but the way i know the onMetaData method of the
NetStream
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scrubber
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not outputting
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Sometimes it helps to trace more than just the value of a
given object.
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Aha. So your trace is "hello," which should certainly be
visible in the
Output panel -- provided the FLV file has metadata. That's
good. And
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paths? That makes me wonder if the relative path is hitting
the video file
at all. (Of course, it would presumably be obvious if not,
because you
wouldn't see the video at all.)
A quick glance at your code doesn't reveal to me anything
outright
wrong. Some of that code looks like it was suggested by one
of my blog
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you to my
blog, but I didn't want to send you on a wild goose chase, if
you'd already
come from there.)
My general approach, when I run into something baffling like
this, is to
isolate the problem area in a separate FLA, so I can study it
without the
distraction of the rest of the code. Here's a quick snippet
from the Help
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var nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
nc.connect(null);
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output in
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the same folder
as your existing work and change the absolute path of that
Adobe file to the
absolute path of one of your own. See if the same sort of
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Dev blog,
http://www.quip.net/blog/
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As you have seen, Captivate 4 introduces a total change in functionality with respect to the way the menu works. Now, all you may do is link to different slides. So this means you have to think a bit outside the box.
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Is it possible to find out the encoding information, such as
video and audio data rates, frame rate, codec used, etc, of a Flash
video clip? If so, how? What tool/software I need to do this?
I am able to find these (encoding) info for video clips if
they are in Window Media or Real Media file formats. But I am not
sure, whether there is way to find these info for Flash video clips
as well.
For example, we chose Flash Video format for one of our Web
sites. Someone at work originally encoded a video clip for the site
at nearly 900kbps (total data rate: video + audio). I asked it to
be reduced to around 300kbps. Well, he resized the video and
encoded the same clip at a lower data rate, but doesn't remember
exactly what setting he used. Now, how do I find out the key
information about encoding for this clip (i.e. data rate, fps,
etc)?

welcome to the mac side, im new also
in windows we would right click and select 'properties' right?
on apple you simply hold control 'ctrl' and then click on the folder you want, the control and click is macs equivanlent to windows' right click
after you've 'ctrl' and clicked, select 'get info', get used to this 'get info' function as you'll probably use it alot, like i said, its like selecting 'properties' on windows
another way of doing the control>click is clicking once on an item so that it is highlighted and then selecting 'file' at the top of your screen and then 'get info' too
to view all pics in a slideshow yo simply highlight each one, or you can select multiple items by holding down the command key (⌘) then single clicking each pic you want to view, this selects it and then double clicking any one of them when they are all highlighted, in mac you will use the 'preivew' application which is an image viewer, sort of the replacement for your old 'windows fax and image viewer' on windows
hope that helps

Importing existing flash video files??

howdy
quick question. if you import existing flash video files into an encore project, will this help reduce the final render time? or will encore rerender the existing flash video files?
cheers
angus

Encore CS3 won't import FLV files. You must render the project to Flash.
You may want to file a feature request at Adobe's support page asking for support for Flash-ready assets, to eliminate the need to transcode in Encore.

SMIL File / Flash Video Object / Netstream

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