Love your blog. I had a question for you regarding loading an external FLV on my website.

My site is set up, loading external SWFs into an empty movie clip on the “home” flash file. This home page has a series of buttons that call the external SWFs into the movie clip using this code:

on (release) {
if (_root.currMovie == undefined) {
_root.currMovie = “main”;
container.loadMovie(”main.swf”);
} else if (_root.currMovie != “main”) {
if (container._currentframe >= container.midframe) {
_root.currMovie = “main”;
container.play();
}
}
}

But, one of the buttons, I would like to call an external SWF into the movie clip that streams an FLV. This “movie” external SWF uses the code from this article to stream the FLV which works fine, but when I click another button on the “home” page to unload that SWF and load another it doesn’t work.

I can’t figure out how to stop the NetStream, unload it and load the new SWF.

If you could help me, I’d really appreciate it.

Thanks a million.

Bart

I have a starting loop at the beginning (Framelabel “Loop”):

Script-Layer 1

stop(); // so that the whole comp stops here

Script-Layer 2

var nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
nc.connect(null);
var ns:NetStream = new NetStream(nc);
videoPlayer.attachVideo(ns);
ns.play(”Content/00_Loop.flv”);

ns.onStatus = function(evt:Object):Void {
if (evt.code == “NetStream.Play.Stop”) {
this.seek(0);
}
};

With some buttons you can start a separate movie

on (release, keyPress “p”) {
gotoAndPlay(”Clip”);
}

and there this one starts…

var duration:Number = 0;
var nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
nc.connect(null);
var ns:NetStream = new NetStream(nc);
videoPlayer.attachVideo(ns);
ns.play(”Content/01_Cycle.flv”);

ns.onMetaData = function(evt:Object):Void {
duration = evt.duration;
};
ns.onStatus = function(evt:Object):Void {
if (this.time > 0 && this.time >= duration) {
gotoAndPlay(”Loop”);
//trace(”Video complete”)
delete this.onStatus;
}
}

It was working like that very well, but since I have updated to CS4 and using the Flashplayer 10, the video doesn’t go back to “Loop” but stops at the last frame of the Clip-Film.

Could it be Flashplayer 10?
Or is something wrong with my script?

Thanks again!
Veronica

stop(); // stop the page from playing
trace(”This=”+this)

// this makes sure that all_rise.flv can be found at run time and dev time

if (_parent) // only true if embedded in another SWF like pageFlip
{
// live, wait till the unmute signal is sent
FLV.contentPath=”pages/all_rise2.flv”;
FLV.autoPlay=false;

}
else
{
// during testing we want the video to start immediately
FLV.contentPath=”all_rise2.flv”;
Signal(”unmute”);
}

function Signal(msg:String)

{

switch(msg)

{

case “mute”: FLV.stop(); break; // this signal can be issued several times.

case “unmute”: FLV.play(); break; // this signal is sent once only.

}

}

Thanks

I am having some issues with one episode.
When movie compiles it loosening a connection with one FLV files (at root directory with the swf). It drops about 19 lines of code about “Virtual PLayer”.

It was actually very irritatingly in and out. Like if I’ll hit “Ctrl+Enter” one after another then sometimes it compiles ok and video plays, but mostly don’t. I killed “mx” folder, trying again - noway, video is not showing.
Any thoughts, please?

Kolyan

// load the xml file
xmlData = new XML();
xmlData.ignoreWhite = true;
xmlData.onLoad = loadXML;
xmlData.load(”videos.xml”);

// parse the nodes of the xml into an array
function loadXML(){
vidArray = new Array();
aNode = this.firstChild.childNodes;
len = aNode.length;
for(var n=0;n!=len;n++){
vidArray[n] = aNode[n].attributes.url;
}
};

// buttons
video1_btn.onRelease = function(){
trace(vidArray[0]);
// videoObj_1 - instance name of FLVPlayback component
videoObj_1.contentPath = vidArray[0];
};

video2_btn.onRelease = function(){
trace(vidArray[1]);
videoObj_2.contentPath = vidArray[1];
};