Using Flash Pro 8, I was unable to run this exercise. I did get connection success, start success, but cannot get the video to show in the vid pane. Why aren't we using the FlVPlayback - Player 8 component? Should I be using the CS3 do run this exercise? Still working this out.
Hi David, sorry for the late reply. This chapter contains several approaches for streaming, including 'hand coded' and the use of the FLVPlayback component. Is it possible that you have made a mistake when setting up the serverside application? You don't need CS3 for this chapter, it should work in Flash8.
Feel free to email me for further advice. stefan AT flashcomguru DOT com
On Demand using the FLV Playback component. I cannot get this to work. I have followed the book to the letter as initially I had used other files. The actionscript example works fine! I am using the demo version of flash CS3 and the main.asc file supplied with your chapter 17 files. The message I get is "Failed to load FLV: rtmp://localhost/streamvideo/snippet_550kbps.flv"
Hello Ed, did you deploy the main.asc file into the /streamvideo folder? Does the completed example work or does that fail also? It's probably a FMS related issue, either the FLV is in the wrong location or the main.asc is missing, something along those lines. Feel free to email me if this does not solve it.
I'm trying to use this exercise with FMS3. Can you tell me the correct placement of the files? I have put the snippet.flv files in the vod/media folder. In the vod folder is a main.far - should I put the main.asc here?
I did the exercise in the chapter using a mac and adobe cs3. Everything within adobe works fine. If I close adobe and double click the html file that was created while on that same mac, my browser opens and plays the video. Am I supposed to be able to take that same test.html file or any other file created during the publish and double click them on any other computer for video playback? I think the bottom line is that I'm confused on the rest of the chapter - i.e., what do I have to do next to deploy the video from our web server?
ok i have finally narrowed down a problem - maybe with specifics someone can figure out what I did wrong. I used a mac running Final Cut Express and Adobe Flash Encoder and Adobe Flash CS3. I published the files and the html plays the video and audio fine. Unfortunately, the only way it plays is with Safari. Any ideas?
sorry I cannot test this because it has all relative paths to the SWF and JS files. What I meant was can you upload all required files somewhere so we can run the page and SWF and see it working (or failing)? The code at first glance looks fine however.
ok the web programmer figured it out. the html that is created with cs3 doesn't work right but he fixed it - thanks so much for your book and your help. I was worried I had prepared the video wrong. I knew 0 going into this project and nobody else wanted to do it so I had to learn as much as I could as fast as I could so you were a huge help!
sorry for the late reply.
This chapter contains several approaches for streaming, including 'hand coded' and the use of the FLVPlayback component. Is it possible that you have made a mistake when setting up the serverside application?
You don't need CS3 for this chapter, it should work in Flash8.
Feel free to email me for further advice. stefan AT flashcomguru DOT com
On Demand using the FLV Playback component. I cannot get this to work. I have followed the book
to the letter as initially I had used other files. The actionscript example works fine! I am using
the demo version of flash CS3 and the main.asc file supplied with your chapter 17 files. The message
I get is "Failed to load FLV: rtmp://localhost/streamvideo/snippet_550kbps.flv"
did you deploy the main.asc file into the /streamvideo folder? Does the completed example work or does that fail also? It's probably a FMS related issue, either the FLV is in the wrong location or the main.asc is missing, something along those lines.
Feel free to email me if this does not solve it.
thanks for the feedback.
There are no plans at the moment to update the book for FMS3, but this plan could change.
Best wishes,
Stefan
could you put this page up online somewhere so we can check it out?
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>WedTest</title>
<script language="javascript">AC_FL_RunContent = 0;</script>
<script src="AC_RunActiveContent.js" language="javascript"></script>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff">
<!--url's used in the movie-->
<!--text used in the movie-->
<!-- saved from url=(0013)about:internet -->
<script language="javascript">
AC_FL_RunContent(
'codebase', 'http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/...',
'width', '550',
'height', '400',
'src', 'WedTest',
'quality', 'high',
'pluginspage', 'http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer',
'align', 'middle',
'play', 'true',
'loop', 'true',
'scale', 'showall',
'wmode', 'window',
'devicefont', 'false',
'id', 'WedTest',
'bgcolor', '#ffffff',
'name', 'WedTest',
'menu', 'true',
'allowFullScreen', 'false',
'allowScriptAccess','sameDomain',
'movie', 'WedTest',
'salign', ''
); //end AC code
</script>
<noscript>
<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/..."" target="_blank">http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/...; width="550" height="400" id="WedTest" align="middle">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="false" />
<param name="movie" value="WedTest.swf" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" /> <embed src="WedTest.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="550" height="400" name="WedTest" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" allowFullScreen="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</object>
</noscript>
</body>
</html>
The code at first glance looks fine however.