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essaeyu
07-17-2008, 09:45 AM
Hi everyone,

I will be greatly obliged if anyone can identify the problem here.

I have created a website in flash which contains around among other things, 12-13 flvs in different sections and around 4 sound files. A section does not display more than one FLV. To display the FLVs, I have used the ‘Import Video’ feature and chosen the ‘progressive download from a webserver’ option as the website is being hosted on a webserver. When the import finishes, video playback component appears on the stage. For audio files, I have used the loadSound() function.

Now the problem is that the videos work fine on some computers, but on others some of the videos and sound play, and some do not. I was wondering whether the following may be the cause of proble:

a) The speed of internet connection


b) Further, I have different sections of the website on different frames on stage (yeah I know not the ideal implementation strategy), so when a section with video is encountered, the programme simply goes to that frame on the stage, and the video starts playing by it self. Similarly when the user switches to another section and consequently the programme moves to another frame on stage, I assume that the video stops downloading by itself as the player is no more in that frame. Is this the right way to do this or do I need to add code explicitly asking the video to stop before it exits the frame?


c) Finally, was wondering whether the videos do not appear because the user’s buffer/cache is full and we need to clear this each time before a video is displayed.

The website is ready to be rolled out and its so frustrating that these glitches have occurred at the last minute. I will be grateful for any clue/help.

Many thanks,

Essaeyu

ATNO
07-17-2008, 04:33 PM
I don't have an answer to part (b) but my first guess for the machines that don't play is they don't have Flash Player 8 or higher installed. Try upgrading the player on those machines and see if that corrects the issue.

atomic
07-17-2008, 04:37 PM
Do you have a link to this?

ATNO
07-17-2008, 04:51 PM
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&promoid=BUIGP

atomic
07-17-2008, 05:07 PM
I was asking that to essaeyu...

essaeyu
07-18-2008, 12:43 PM
ATNO, Atomic,

Many thanks for your replies.

ATNO: I have a flash detection check which prompts users to download flash if they don’t have version 8 or higher.

Atomic: Unfortunately I can’t provide the link as it is on the organisation’s intranet. However I am attaching a demo movie which will give you an idea of the way I have implemented the website and the displaying of the video.

Just to add to my previous post: At the point when videos fail to load, nothing else in the programme works e.g. links to Word/PDF documents do not open. A page refresh command doesn't do anything as well and one has to restart the browser to access the resource again.

essaeyu
07-21-2008, 11:12 AM
I have just realised that although the resource creates problems in IE 7.0, it works fine in Firefox. Are there any known issues of FLVPlayBack Component vis-à-vis IE. Can anyone suggest a way out? Thanks.

essaeyu
08-21-2008, 04:13 PM
I have got the solution. The problem was due to the wrong MIME type associated with FLV Video in the IIS server. So I changed the MIME type from Application/octet-stream to video/x-flv and the website now runs fine.

candice7683
08-27-2008, 10:12 AM
i found a freeware --flv downloader,maybe it can help u .if need u can google it.hope it can help u.