Video playback in embedded swf

Hi,
I'm building a website in flash catalyst that uses an embedded swf also created in catalyst. The site is for a musician, and one of the pages (states) loads a swf file that contains a list of videos the user can select and play. That swf was also made in catalyst. This works.
When I navigate away from the video page to the Bio page (for instance), the video stops playing, which is good. The problem though, is when I return to the video page, the video resumes right where it was when I left the page. This is a bit jarring... I'd really like the video to stop playing for real when the user navigates away, so that when he/she returns to the page, its in the default state... With nothing playing.
Can anyone help? I'm stuck here.
Thanks!
Craig

you need to make your own controls and you need to learn some
basic actionscript: controlling playhead movement along a timeline
is about as basic as it gets. check the movieclip gotoAndPlay(),
gotoAndStop() methods.

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there sure are a lot of angry peeps on this forum lately.
Hard to tell exactly what you are doing -
allow me to quote you:
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timeline"
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true and must be a typo.
Make it easier for us to help you by explaining in detail
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Also - this is a volunteer based peer to peer forum - it is
not official adobe support - you need to
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I’ve been looking on this forum and if this problem is covered in another post, if you could point me in that direction that would be great. If you have an answer to this problem that would also be great.
We build classroom presentations in InDesign and export them to PDF for final output. We use Acrobat Professional to place the videos, audio, buttons etc. Everything is currently done in Acrobat 6.0.2.
We place the videos (not embedded) and play them with the built in player as the preference. We place .mpg movies that are H.264
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We have switched up to InDesign CS4 from CS1. I have rebuilt part of a presentation in CS1 from the ground up but still have a playback problem in Acrobat 9 and Acrobat 9 with the small updates.
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Each time I did a new test, I shut Acrobat down and started it fresh.
If I did a test and got the video to play each of the following videos, in other PDF files would then play without any problem.
Our classroom presentation are set in full screen mode with the video as a floating window. I did test it out of full screen mode, and the same symptoms happen for each scenario.
Again, our previous 80+ programs are working fine, which makes me think there is something in CS4 that I am missing, but when I rebuilt part of on in CS1 it still had the same issues.
Our material is built on Mac and in class run on both Mac and Windows machines. The video play back problem happens on both Mac and Windows machines.
If I run it on Acrobat 7 or 8, everything works fine.
We will be authoring on a newer version in the future, but currently I’m trying to solve this problem on the video playback in Acrobat 9 (with minor updates).
If anyone has any insight into this issue please post a response.
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Hey Steve,
Thanks for the response. You are correct, we lay out the documents in
InDesign, them export a PDF. From that point on we are doing all the linking
and placing of video files in Acrobat 6.0.2.
It has been a hard one to get consistent to trouble shoot out. We hit the
glitch with 9 due to the new windows machines needing 9.
I have been working in 9 a little and it seems like when I place a mpg file
and accept that an external player will be used I can then choose the button
tool and it recognizes the movie, almost like a button. I don't know if that
is where some of the conflict comes from.
Last week I talked to our IT department about needing to move up to 9 and
getting comfortable with 9 before we transition as we will need to have all
our instructor laptops currently in the field updated. The pinch is we are
on a tight schedule and have to have two classes authored by mid-October.
After that we can look into a transition, but right now I'm between a rock
and a hard place for anyone with a new windows machine.
John
From: Steve Small <[email protected]>
Reply-To: <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:05:57 -0600
To: John Vatne <[email protected]>
Subject: Video Playback In Acrobat 9
I'm sorry, John, it sounds to me like you are using the term 'Acrobat' to mean
everything. I'm wondering if the files are being authored/created in Acrobat
6.0.2, then played back in Adobe Reader 9. If this is the case, it certainly
sounds like there may be a bug in 9. However, I would highly recommend
authoring these files in Acrobat 9.x Professional. H.264 files are handled
directly by the new Flash Tool. I've tested what I believe are your steps to
reproduce and my result worked fine. I created a PDF that is just an H.264
video and set its playback property to play when the PDF is opened. I also
set the PDF to open in Full Screen mode. I then created a PDF that had
nothing on it but a button that calls the first H.264 video PDF and the whole
thing works great. I did this all on a Mac.
Anyway, let me know if I have that right; you're authoring all of these in
Acorbat 6.0.2.
>

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Hello,
I'm new here and probably this was asked before me, but I spent a lot to search on the net and actually couldn't find much.
I'm developing a web based application dealing with video - it should be controlable and have to interact with other elements of the app. The client now asks mobile apps - for Android and iOS, that should have same features.
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Can you say even more about what it is you want to do? I mean, what will the application do, not what are the technical aspects of how it will work?
For a point of comparison, look at this thing I did:
http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/mixit/
If you try out the Make page, both the template ones and the from scratch one, as well as the View page to see the playback unit in action. Is what you're going to do anything like that?
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At some future time there will hopefully be StageVideo that can use H.264, but I don't know when that will be, or whether it will be responsive enough (FLV is much faster to connect to and play than H.264).
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I am currently doing some voluntary work for my mom for the local branch of the Alzheimer Foundation. Now I have encoded a video to mpeg4/h.264 and F4V using the Adobe Media Encoder only I am having not much luck to get it successfully played. Now is my question what could I be doing wrong? I already tried to use ActionScript 2 and 3 and disabled GZIP compression on the server and even tried different files like H.264 and F4V.
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Yes, I have just used the normal Video-object together with the normal trick to load Flash Video files with it. Nothing special only with a full URL for the play()-method. I have attached the source code for your convenience. The original files are edited in Premiere Pro CS4 and are based on one original ripped DVD vob file and a newly created Quicktime-based slideshow animation which has then be edited into one using Premiere.
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I need to put a Flash Video on my website, embedded in one of the existing html pages.
When my developer puts together a Flash Video in Flash CS4 or CS5 using ActionScript 3, the video does not play - t just keeps buffering (showing a striped appearance on the seek bar) and will not play unless I refresh the browser.
I've tried copying the code from the html page that came with the set of swf and flv files and that doesn't work either.
Just inserting the swf file into the web page like we used to do in CS3 and earlier does not wor.
I noticed that now with ActionScript 3 there is no ACRunActiveContent.js file.
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Wonder what i can do to use CS4 and CS5 videos and have them play on html pages?
Any ideas anyone?

Just to clarify:
Creating a Flash Video swf in CS5 (or even CS4) with ActionScript 3 requires the video to be embedded in the web page a bit differently than we were used to with CS3 and AS2.
While the newer versions of Flash do use a different method (using swfobject) when "Publishing" a Flash .swf, it is NOT required to do so. In fact neither swfobject nor ACRun... are required to display Flash of any version (AS1, 2, or 3) on a Web page. The simple single object method will work just fine:
<object data="path_to_file/file.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="insert_width_of_movie" height="insert_height_of_movie">
<param name="movie" value="path_to_file/file.swf">
<param name="SomeOtherParam" value="ParamValue">
</object>
Both ACRun and swfobject are "Flash Detection" methods used to display some alternative content if Flash is not detected... they are NOT needed to simply display the Flash .swf.
However, you can't use half ACRun code and half swfobject code....it must be either one or the other... and either would display AS3 players just fine.... as would the single object method.
Best wishes,
Adninjastrator

Video playback in embedded swf

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