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[_] actionscript video embedding

Tim Brayshaw tim at twisty.com
Tue Jun 19 17:24:08 BST 2007

On 19 Jun 2007, at 15:39, Alex Stanhope wrote:

> Hi Tim, thanks for replying.  I tried your exact code below  
> (copying the
> skin into the output dir) and it didn't work for me, which points to a
> problem with my setup.  I'm testing in Flash 8 Professional (ctrl +  
> return)
> and I get an output window with a white background, a blue triangle  
> but no
> video.

I've just tried it in Flash CS 3 Professional, and Flash 8  
Professional (both on Mac)... and it works okay!

All I did was pasted that script into the first frame, and added an  
instance of the FLVPlayback component to the library.

> When you say it works for you, I'm presuming you get the video of
> the water.

Yep, a blue shape (actually a quadrilateral!) with a video of some  
water overlaid to the bottom-right.

Maybe your firewall is blocking the video loading? Perhaps try it  
with a local video file next...

Cheers.

Tim.