I'm trying to create a video gallery that has thumbnails. But I want the thumbs to be the first frame of the video. Is there any way to extract the first (or any other) frame and display it as bitmap data without having to download the entire .flv file?
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I'm a self learning flash programer. Currently having trouble on a xml photo album for a friend's website. The rest of the site is working like a charm, except for a few glitches here and there. My real problem is that i can't put the thumbs on the stage. I'm using this code to do it.
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I am building a Flash file that has two thumbnail scrollers, and I'm having difficulty with it. The basic way it's supposed to work is like this. I have a t-shirt, and want to put a graphic on the t-shirt. The t-shirt is already loaded with no problem. I load the thumbnail script so I can pick from available graphics to place on the t-shirt. Fine so far. Now I want to show the back of the t-shirt, and select a different image for the back.
I've tried this two different ways:
1) Have them in different layers of the same frame, so that I can hide the inactive layer without erasing the info for that layer. The problem with this is that it seems something in the second instance of the thumbnail script is overriding the ability of the first instance to work properly. As you'll see here, the thumbnails load fine either way, but you can only change the picture if you hit "flip product": [URL]
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2) Have the front and back in different frames. This seems to work better, but now it refreshes the initial image every time it flips between the frames rather than keeping the image that had been chosen: [URL].
So basically I'm curious how I can either
1) Keep the second instance from interfering with the first if in the same frame; or
2) Disable the refreshing of the initial image.
I have redesigned my site from a flashmo template and all is fine except for my thumbnail string not loading/showing in any browsers or even in my dreamweaver & flash previews.
my site is [url]... if you press on the 'decor' button you'll see the place where the thumbnails should be coming up and loading - but all it shows is a permanent loading sign on the first thumbnail and nothing else.
In my CS4 flash document I have created a media gallery. It's a very simple interface that has mouse overs on thumbnail pictures, and then the larger picture will fadeUP in the center of the document. (With use of framelabels in the timeline).
In the same document, I want the user to be able to click on a video thumbnail, and that video plays back in the center of the document. Several questions: If the user clicks on the thumbnail "onrelease," the time line goes to the player, is it possible to stream this video from a youtube clip into my media player on the screen? If not and I have the document in a fl4 format, is there a simple process to have this video open? (I currently do not have the document in fl4 format).
I've been using the "Reusable Preloader Using MovieClipLoader" from the tutorial section of this site.The only difference is that i don't use'm for preloading jpg. I load external swf files containing video. Everything works fine so far. The only problem is that the preloaded video already starts playing while preloading (at about 30%), but without showing the video.This is the code i have so far:
Code:
bar._visible = false;
border._visible = false;
this.createEmptyMovieClip("container", "100");[code].....
I am trying to create a video gallery with thumbnails, I referenced [URL].
its a great tutorial, Howevr my problem is that i want to stream flv files from http link, and for that I am putting null in the connection, i.e I am not making an rtmp connection as my files are not on my m/c.
now when i do this, im not able to grab the first frame of my stream.
ns.play(URL, 0 , 0), here 3rd parameter is len, which if 0 should play first frame..this will solve my purpose of thumbnail. but right now, its playing whole file in the thumbnail which i dont want.
get the first frame while playing flv from http url?
Using Flash cs5I have a simple swfnothing on the stage except a video (flv) playback component.I dont want it to autostart which i see the paremeter for and have set that to uncheckedBut I would like pick a place in the video to be the thumbnail image for the video that people see instead of just a black box. I dont see how to do that.Is there any way to have them see a thumbnail image in the video player instead of a black box when i dont want the video to autoplay?
View 2 RepliesI'm making a site that has a scrolling set of thumbnails and then when you click on one of the thumbnails a video will play. I used this (httpurl].....) tutorial and the scrolling is fine, but when I set the thumbnail to go to a certain frame/flag it doesn't go? I click on the thumbnail> +> Movieclip> goto and play at frame or label> and put in the label I've used for the frame (F15) and then when I test the movie nothing happens when I click on the thumbnail. Can someone help me? I'm dyin' here.
View 2 RepliesI'm working on putting together a portfolio website in Actionscript 3.0, and here's my situation: I have four main sections (Home, Works, Reel and Contact). When you first enter the website, it directs you to the Home content, which is on Frame 1. When you click on Works, it is intended to take you to Frame 2 - which it does just fine. On the works page, however, there is a frame to display large versions of the row of thumbnails along the bottom. Frame 2 automatically displays the large image of the first thumbnail, but the second thumbnail redirects you to Frame 3, which is identical, except it replaces the large image of the first thumbnail with the large image of the second thumbnail - and so on and so forth.
The thing is, when I get to Frame 2, my thumbnail buttons aren't working and I get this error:
TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
at Portfolio_Site_03_fla::MainTimeline/frame1()
What I'm getting from this error is that it essentially doesn't recognize my thumbnail buttons because they do not exist on frame 1. I even attempted to move the keyframes with the thumbnail buttons on them to frame 1 and everything was working just fine, except for the fact that I had big thumbnail buttons all over my home page which I do not want to be there. For reference, here is my AS code:
ActionScript Code:
stop();
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
import flash.net.URLRequest;
//---Home Button---\
Home_Button.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,hClick);
function hClick(event:MouseEvent):void{
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How can I resolve my situation and get my buttons to do what I want them to do? My only guess would be that I'd need to make a new scene, but wasn't that one of the major points of AS 3.0?
I'm trying to do a simple video gallery but it's not working. When I preview the .swf and click on a thumbnail, the video doesn't play I just get this loading bar. No code errors come up and my flash file (.fla), .swf, and videos (.flv) are all in the same folder.
Here's my code:
stop();
btn1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,vid1);
btn2.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,vid2);
btn3.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,vid3);
btn4.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,vid4);
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I am creating a gallery of video thumbnail.Also I am planning to set the frame of video on each thumbnail to first frame of video .When i load a single video,its working. But when i tried to load more than one video on different thumbnail movie clip in a for loop, its not working. This is my live project.can anybody help me.its very urgent. I tried with many possibilities that i know. I am a 3 month experienced flash programmer.
var thumb_nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
thumb_nc.connect(null);
for(i=0;i<videoArrLen;i++){
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The urlArry contains the url of video to be loaded and thumbArry contains the NetStream object for different movieclips.
I have attached a video on a frame of my website in Flash. When I preview the movie the film plays as it should.But when I export the Fla. as a Swf. file it then doesn't have the movie there anymore?It does show this error:
**Warning** The linkage identifier 'FLVPlayback' was already assigned to the symbol 'Video/FLVPlayback', and cannot be assigned to the symbol 'FLVPlayback', since linkage identifiers must be unique.
I really don't know what that refers too.
I have a video player which using netStream, works well but i want to show video thumbnail when video player is not playing and stop from playing?
View 9 RepliesI have a video gallery (operable) and AS is within the flash file. i currently have my thumbnails (in xml file) in one column off the the left side however they just run right off the screen.With the code provided below, would someone assist me in having images automatically spread over a number of columns.[code]
View 0 RepliesI have a flash video that don't show up.
Here are my steps...
1. Create new page and chose Flash File (ActionScript 3.0)
2. Imported mp4 video to stage
3. Selected Load External Video with playback component
4. Then File/Export Export Movie then File Publish Preview/HTML
.swf or html showing video on source machine but on another machine (All files copied into one folder) I do not see it.
This other machine is using Firefox 3.5.6 which has Flash Player 10.0.42.34 installed. It doesn't matter if I click on the .swf or html I still see no video. Only player control and some sorta working animation.
I have tried several ways to import a movie and create a web banner. I created a project in After Effects and exported as both an flv and an f4v. I imported to Flash with no skin and set the project to the same size as the content. When I test the scene, everything is fine. When I do a publish preview, all is well. If I view the published html file on teh computer I created it on, that works. If I try it from another machine on my network, or send the directory with all the files to others, it shows nothing - just a blank page with the flash object there, but no movie.
View 11 Replieswhat I need is to make my button display its over frame when I move the mouse over it. I can do it using onClipEvent(.....) { fine, but I cant use that... I think. The code I am using is in frame 1 of the timeline and is this:
Code:
mybtnmc.onPress = function() {
trace("hi");
}
As soon as I make the button have a function when pressed, it doesn't show the over frame. I'll attach my fla so you can see it, but I would like a solution that allows me to use the above code and no code on the actual button movieclip because it wont be there until I insert it later during runtime.
Flash CS4 Pro I created a Flash video, which when previewing locally works fine, but then I upload the files to the webserver, then nothing is displayed, I only see a white area where the Flash video should have been (no broken image icon, see the attached jpg file, it shown an white area where the video is suppose to appear).
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Currently I cannot get my flash file to show up on one section of my webpage in firefox, but it loads fine in all other browsers. This is the second flash file that I have added and the first one works perfectly fine. The website files are all .php and is driven by templates.
I have wmode set to opaque as before and haven't used any different publishing .smv settings. However to have it show up I have to change the php file for the webpage and add a "/" to the <param name="movie" value="/new.swf" /> line before the movie file name. The file is placed in the directory.
The tricky thing is that in the other movie I didn't have to place this / sign and it works in all browsers. I have republished and republished and can't get anything to work.[url]...
I have created a Flash Video in Flash 8 and published and picked up in Dreamweaver 8. Published files were sample.swf, sample.html and SteelExternalAll.swf (skin). Publish settings were: Format - Flash SWF and HTML; default Flash settings with local playback security set to access local files only; default HTML settings.
In Dreamweaver, sample.html is accessed via an iframe in test.php. In Preview mode, everything is as it should be with the Video showing. The problem is, when I upload all the files to the Server, the video is not displayed including the skin. Instead, all I get is the border of the iframe with a red rectangle showing where the video should be.
I have made a image-viewer. I've this AS for the viewer:
Code:
import mx.transitions.Tween;
import mx.transitions.easing.*;
function loadXML(loaded) {[code].....
Now i would like to make a loop for the thumbnails so they don't have a beginning or end(Now when i scroll to the right the thumbnails stop at the last thumbnail, i want it to begin at the first thumb again).I'm also trying to make that the middle thumbnail represents the photo in target_mc.
I am making a gallery, which you can view here:[URL]ok, firstly, when you click a thumbnail, you cannot scroll them until you roll off the click thumbnail, and I'm not sure why. is it just a movieclip thing? or can I put some code in to re-get focus of something? ok, now for the two general questions:
1. When you roll over the thumbs, they go up, sometimes they flick back down though, even though you are rolled over them still. is this just because they are moving?
2. Does anyone know why when I add this:
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I am trying to implement a Flash YouTube video player on this page. [code]...
The only problem is that the player does not show up. Scroll down the page and right below Secondary Headline there is a large white space - this is where the player is.
I have tried it in isolation here and it works fine, but something is messing it up on the destination page.
I imported flv flash video file into the Flash and added a controller there. I chose one from the list. I then published the video and got this swf file, which I then put onto the webpage using this code, as I want my page to be XHTML compliant:
HTML Code:
<object
classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
[code].....
I'm using a really simple PHP contact form. It works well and sends the information to my email but it will not go to the 'Thank you' message on the next frame.[code]...
View 5 RepliesI'm using FMLE 3.1 to stream live video encoded with H.264 format with FMS 3 and Flash player 10 + AS 3 to connect to the stream. When I connect to the stream, just the audio is played. I'm able even to get the metadata information about the video, but I just receive the audio. I already tried some stuff like
1. "Flash 10 won't play live stream H.264 after iTunes install" [URL]. I tested it in a complete different environment than mine, but the same result.
2. I've tried some format to play method, but this is just to play files
ns.play("mp4:saple.f4v"); ns.play("mp4:sample");
3. Also read "How do you watch and record a live h.264" [URL], but I don't get even to play the stream at first place. This is the code I'm using
import flash.media.Video;
var video:Video = new Video(720, 480);
var ncVideo = new NetConnection();
this.ncVideo.addEventListener(NetStatusEvent.NET_STATUS, onNetStatus);
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Another detail is that when I record the video to a file for instance "sample.f4v", I put this video in the FMS but when I connect to this stream I receive the "FileStructureInvalid" error message. I went from changing the extension to .flv [URL] to the solution to flatten the files [URL] but this is not the case because I'm using FMS to stream the recorded video.
I have a introduction page with a video background, and a button that sends the user to another page.I just have one problem, and that's when you see the page online, for a slit of a second, you just see the button on a black background before the video is loaded and starts playing. Not really sure how to go about it.I recon the button should first be visible when the video appears or are loaded..? I have the following AS. "Mybtn" is my button.
var videos:Array=new Array("videos/video.flv");
stop();
stage.scaleMode=StageScaleMode.NO_SCALE;
stage.align=StageAlign.TOP_LEFT;
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I'm creating a flash site, AS2, with a video as the background.I'm using a stage listener with a onResize() function to re-size and position my video according to the stage size.My problem is that now the browser will show no scroll (I assume that's because it "thinks" there is no content outside of the browser), but I want it, at a certain minimum size to stop resizing the video, and display scrollers on the browser.
View 6 RepliesI have a flex application that uses BrowserManager for Deep Linking.
But whenever the # changes the new hash fragment gets appending to the bottom of the page. In IE it is inside a frame that says "Hidden frame for Browser History support." I didn't even know it worked that way. But anyways it is not supposed to be showing up visibly on the page but it is..
