loading movies directly from the page

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loading movies directly from the page

charlee

4:04 pm on Apr 21, 2008 (gmt 0)

Im trying to have a movie loader in my website but then what i want to do is that when i click in one image of my page this swf starts streaming the correspondent video, but still dont know how to get that exactly. I can just make a whole swf file and thats about it but I would really want some interaction from my page and the swf. Other way the swf is gonna be too heavy and the user will need to wait more just to see the thumbnails of the videos. I need just a starting point at least.

thanks in advance

rocknbil

2:37 am on Apr 23, 2008 (gmt 0)

There's many ways to do this - Google for Flash video playlist tutorial for some samples.

What you're trying to do is probably connect to the Flash object to "tell" it what to load. This is normally done by query string or Javascript to communicate with the Flash.

Other way the swf is gonna be too heavy

In any case, what you should do is load the video into your player on demand. That is, when the Flash object loads, it's probably 40-100K in size, maximum. Video is not loaded into it until the visitor activates the controls, or data is sent to it by a link.

I know the answer is a bit vague, but as I said there are many ways to do this, all pretty well covered in the help files depending on what approach you use.

charlee

3:38 pm on May 2, 2008 (gmt 0)

But the problem is that i dont know how to control flash from javascript, i know theres a swLiveConnect=true param i can just activate in my object tag, and then i can set variables in flash with a simple window.document.mytest.setVariable("myvar", str); but its not working and i set all the params already, i put an id in the object tag and the name in the embed and nothing yet sigh.

here is the code