This article may be of some use for Sound: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/dynamic_sound_generation/index.html
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Mark" <auroraborea...@...> wrote: > > Hello, > > I am working on a flex project for my job, and we have seem to of hit a road > block. > > we have two parts to our project, one part which is written in AIR that is > used to create case files, which is really just a zip with a XML file and > 'assets', as in pictures, text, audio, video, hyperlinks, and whatever else > we may want to use in the future > > The way the zip library we are using works is that we get the individual file > information out of the zip by calling a function which returns a ByteArray > representation of the data > > However, our problem is using the limitations of the Flash/Flex Web-browser > plugin (not air) which does not have any of the file functions, so we cannot > save the files we extract from the zip to the hard drive, (which we do with > the AIR portion of the project), we are forced to keep them as ByteArrays. > > But, we are having problems with a part of our program which previews these > assets, namely Audio and Video files in the browser, it appears that the > VideoDisplay and Sound classes do not accept ByteArrays, but only streams or > a URL....but we cannot give it a URL because we just don't have one, the > files are in memory as a ByteArray object. > > Is there any cool way to convert a ByteArray into a Sound /VideoDisplay that > anyone knows of? If not, we are going to have to resort to using an external > php script to do the work of unzipping files on the server, which defeats the > purpose of having it all in one file anyway. > > ~Mark >
