Streaming video vs. .swf

I have created a number of CP modules for a client whose web
gurus say that their server cannot play 'streaming video'. I think,
please correct me, there is a misunderstanding on their part.
When we are playing a .swf of a CP project, the streaming
video capabilities of a server shouldn't be an issue. Right? Is it
possible that swfs files couldn't playback in this situation?
Streaming video seems much more demanding from a bandwidth
perspective than a swf file.
Thanks in advance!
Jim

If you stream from a Media Server (RTMP-Real Time Messaging
Protocol), it is only sending data that is currently being viewed,
therefore, no it doesn't cache to the users comp. It is sending
packets of data as you are watching it. Progressive download, yes,
it is caching to the users machine, and even if the user leaves
before finishing the video, it will continue to download until it
has completed. RTMP, you can scrub the video to the very end as
soon as it starts playing since it is only sending the necessary
data at that point in time. Progressive, you have to wait until the
video downloads to view that part of the video.
Edit: Terrible grammar mistakes, just couldn't bare it.

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Swf insert streaming video

Per adobe connect instruction http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/402/kb402630.html
I should be able to play the streaming flv video embedded in swf object.
Followed exactly on the instrution and the swf streaming video didin't run in presenter after publish.
I created swf in flash CS3 and i able to view the preview of the video but inserted in presenter as swf didn't run.
Any advice? i have large video that i need to embedded into presenter slide.
thx

Not sure why but it sounds like there might be something going wrong when you are creating the SWF. There are a lot settings that need to be correct to Flash.
You can easily just publish the SWF in Adobe Connect directly. That is what I do. I do not think it is best to embed a large video inside Powerpoint. I think it is better from a presentation point of view to have your Presenter course but have the video shared as a separate pod in your room. That way the two are independent. It's more efficient as well since your Powerpoint doesn't become huge in size. You can publish SWF and FLV video natively using the share document pod.

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Ahh, if only that were entirely true!
While you're correct that you can embed flash in your
Presenter files, it's still not possible to use the latest On2 VP6
codecs which is what you need to do if you want high quality large
size video files. Using the Sorenson codec which is what would be
required by your suggestion, means that the video tends to be quite
pixillated and limited to a small frame size, otherwise you end up
with lots of buffering delays.
Our solution allows you to run fullscreen video of unlimited
length from within Presenter and it works in self-paced
presentations and meeting room environments too.
On the issue of posting information about a product on a
Forum, my understanding of the concept of a forum is that it's a
place for the exchange of ideas and solutions. This forum is
located under the menu item of "Communities" on the Adobe site and
many people come here looking for ways to solve problems and
exchange ideas.
I've had numerous people contact me saying they have been
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It's not my intent to offend, only to raise awareness.
Thanks for listening,
Terry

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Hi guys!
I have a placeHolder MC in my main movie.
Within the placeHolder is an external swf containing an mpg
video.
How can I code the preloader of the external swf to stream
the mpg?
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All the best,
Mark

if you mean stream as in streaming video, you need the
communication server.
if you mean preload the file, you can do so with various
components in flash.
loadMovie
Loader
MovieClipLoader
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Ok guys. I have searched high and low for a solid week and
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Server 2003
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Apache 2.2
PHP
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CS3 to add the stream to the page. Can't decide if it is because of
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Got it. I can't stress this enough.....File structure, file
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sure to create <any folder name>, then streams folder, then
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My only issue now is that my video to the worldwideweb is
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I quote
.... media files must be externalized, e.g., separate zip and be either a) hosted by and accessed from the vendor site (preference) or b) hosted on an internal media site (secondary).
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Hi Ashwin,
This still hasn't worked for us. We have been given a server name in this format: rtmp://server.name.net/ and an application name in the format app/name, which together form a url: rtmp://server.name.net/app/name
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Streaming
field 1: rtmp://server.name.net/app/name
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myvideo.flv
or
rtmp://server.name.net/app/name
/test/myvideo
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None of these seem to work. I can play the flv directly using a client called WIMPY so I know the streaming service works. With that client I enter a fully qualified path such as: rtmp:/server.name.net/app/name/test/myvideo.flv and it works flawlessly.
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I need help with streaming video

I have 7 videos I've produced that I would like to
progressively stream from my web site. They're all approx 400 x 200
about 2 minutes long with sound. I have a scene set up with each
video in a separate keyframe so you can navigate from one to the
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I can get the videos to play locally. When I upload the swf
and .flvs to my server, they won't play. One error message I get on
output states that "**Warning** The linkage identifier
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cannot be assigned to the symbol 'golden', since linkage
identifiers must be unique." What I did there is rename each video
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Ah, I see what happened. Every time I import a QT into the
library, Flash creates a FLVPlayback component along with a .flv
file. I cleared all but one FLVPlayback component and reimported
the .flvs to stage and now I have streaming video on the website.
Thanks clbeech, that was really helpful!
One more issue. I've selected one of the prebuilt skins
(Clearexternalplayseekmute.swf) to control video, while it works
locally, I can't see it on the server. Do the skins need additional
code to work?

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I am working on developing a capability for two client
programs to teleconference through a Flash Media Server.
I need to be able to support high quality video, 640x480 at
30 fps. I began by following the tutorial in "Beginner's guide to
streaming live video with Flash Media Server 3 by Tom Green. The
website is
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/fashmediaserver/articles/beginner_live_fms3.html
I was able to use the Flash Media Encoder to save video to a
file and play it back in Flash. I ran into some trouble when I
attempted to stream live video following his example. I published
from the publish settings dialog. This resulted in the html and swf
files being created. I next opened the html file to attempt to view
the video stream. The Flash Media Encoder is running and streaming
video to the Flash Media Server. When I opened the html file I got
a message box that says Adobe Flash Security. It said "Adobe Flash
Player has stopped a potentially unsafe operation." It said the swf
file is trying to communicate with localhost, an Internet-enabled
location. There is a settings button that is supposed to let you
allow the application to communicate with the Internet. When I
clicked on it the settings manager did not open as expected but a
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Security Error #2028.
What this ended up meaning was that I had to add the swf file
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problem. I turned blocking off and was able to see the
settings manager dialog. In the settings manager dialog I was
able to add the swf as a trusted file. When I did this it
immediately worked.
There is a time lag in the client program though of about a
second and a half. I don't have any ideas yet on why this is. Maybe
this will go away when the encoder is removed. I need to be able to
have the client programs connect and publish directly without
having to run an encoder on each client site. Does anyone know if
this will fix the lag problem or if there is something else I could
do to fix it?

Hey freinds,
This can be done using RTSP protocol. Basically its streaming video from rstp server and/or http server. Any ideas, suggestions for that.
Give me some helpline guideline to work on it.
Looking ahead for your responses.
Edited by: TruptiD on Jul 28, 2010 3:46 AM

Streaming Video in pdf-based ebook

I have created a pdf file with streaming video. In other words, using the multimedia tool in acrobat 9, I specify a RTMP URL which points to a specific video on our streaming video server. Everything works perfectly in the PDF.
After packaging the PDF in ACS4, the streaming video does not work in the resulting ebook.
Is there some restriction that is preventing streaming video using the RTMP protocol from working? Has anybody successfuly placed streaming video in their ebook?

I have placed a SWF in my base PDF document and packaged it as an ebook. Video does not play. I do have the poster image of the video visible but I am not able to start the video. There is no active area on the video for me to do anything. Is there any document I have missed that explains how to embed a video into an ebook?
There are a number of different opotions in flash to generate a SWF file for imported video such as:
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So our company has a streaming video feed coming from the folks over at quickplay.com.
All was good watching the streaming video in Safari (iOS 8 and Mac 10.10)...UNTIL you turn on closed captioning. Now anytime you load the feed you get a "Missing plug-in" message with "This page contains content of “application/vnd.apple.mpegurl” type. You do not have the plug-in required to view this content."
Close/restart Safari, or rebooting does nothing...happens on the Mac and iPhone. So I came across the enable Accessibility options for closed captioning on both devices in Settings and nothing.
One of our staff needs to view this feed with the CC on to monitor it. So I guess first where on both devices is it caching the preference to use CC and making them unable to stream the feed any longer. And then...why is this not working?

What is the subject matter of these FLVs?
If it's Captivate screen captures, then you could have added the CC text to each slide if you had left them as FMV slides.
However, if the video content is of other things, e.g. people talking or some type of action captured with a video camera, then I believe your best solution would be to add the Closed Captioning in whatever tool you used to edit and publish the video.
As I mentioned before, Captivate doesn't really provide a mechanism for adding CC text to on screen objects that contain audio in any form. So for example, you cannot add CC text to an SWF that you've inserted as an animation, even though you can record and add audio to that SWF in Captivate. Videos are in a similar position, except that they usually don't have their audio added in Captivate. They mostly come with their audio track built in. This means the only real way to guarantee good synchronisation of the CC text is to have it embedded in the video as well.

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