Haha … yes, 100 / 50 is 2. Man, I’m a goof. That’s two simple arithmetic errors for me in either the article or the comments.

Shouldn’t it be _currentframe / _totalframes
100 / 50 is … whoops! 2

and also, you can simply divide the frame you are at by the frame rate to get seconds. We see that this is identical to the originally proposed method… (_currentframe / _totalframes) * (_totalframes/24) = _currentframe / 24

Wow! For what you’re doing, I would probably use specifically video-related properties, such as FLVPlayback.playheadTime or, say, NetStream.time (see related classes in the ActionScript 2.0 Language Reference for details).

If you really want to convert a timeline-based video to HH:MM:SS:frames, you’re going to have to be prepared for inaccurate results, not only because the timeline cannot have fractional frames, but also because the arithmetic may be more or less “chunky” depending on the framerate ratios.

That said, you’d have to know your SWF’s framerate going in. Let’s say your SWF’s framerate is 24fps. If the SWF has 100 frames — because that’s how may frames the video requires — then the video takes approximately 4.17 seconds to play from start to finish (100 frames divided by 24fps = 4.17). If you’re at frame one, zero seconds have passed. If you’re at frame 100, 4.17 seconds have passed. With me so far? If you’re at frame 50, 2.09 seconds have passed.

So take note of the SWF’s _currentframe value and compare that against its _totalframes value to find your ratio.

var ratio = _totalframes / _currentframe
// e.g. 100 / 50 = 0.5

Then use that ratio to determine seconds.

4.17 * ratio

I tihnk i have the tools between this post and AS dictionary.

but if someone has doen it please post.

Ha! Woops. Thanks, man. Updating the article now.

Actually, 4 divided by 2 is 2

How do to what — the Crystal Reports thing?