Video & Flash

[JerryRowe]

I am making a promotional CD that will utilize some giant (250 MB) video (.mpg, .avi, & .mov) files.

I want to have a flash interface for viewing them...But I want the viewer to see the video files as best they can - so I don't know if trying to import / stream the video into the flash movie is a good idea.

Is there some way to open an external instance of Windows Media player in full screen mode, and begin playing that file?

Or does someone have a better suggestion?

Thanks!



Jerry

[toke]

do you mean open an external instance of win media player from flash?

[JerryRowe]

Yes. :)

[CyanBlue]

Howdy...

Maybe this isn't really what you are looking for, but if you use JStart (http://www.flashjester.com/?section=tricks_jtools_jstart) from the Flash Jester, you can open a related EXE file with your movie file...

[jaybee]

you can use fscommand to launch an exe and give a file name in the command line but you need to have a copy of the winplayer on your cd (I think? This was changed from f5 when you could give a path to their own app, but this way you'd be sure they had the right software...) - read up at http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/fscommand_projectors.htm#Exec

[JerryRowe]

Cool. So how do I make a "BAT" (batch) file so I can open a specific file?

[jaybee]

sorry dunno first thing about batch files, maybe have a search....?good luck w\ it