Re: [flexcoders] Video Controller

[greg h]

Andrew and Adbul,

For some good, light-hearted fun you may want to check this out:
www.adobe.com/devnet/tip/001.html

This is a Flash 5 "Tip of the Week" from Macromedia themselves with a
streaming demo of how to "create your own Macromedia Flash controller
for a QuickTime movie".  I am not making this stuff up. 
(Funnier still, please note that they published this pre-Captivate-like demo
in QuickTime.  lol)

It has been said that necessity is the mother of invention, and before
FLV, Flash developers did some amazing things to get the interactivity
of Flash integrated with true video on the net.  Should it be anyone's *first*
choice today?  NOOOO!

Unless maybe like this guy who posted last year
that he has "over 10,000 videos I already have captured and rendered as
wmv".  Then, rather than re-encode his video library as FLVs, it
might make sense to "do 1 flash movie and then 'float' the windows media player embed over the top of the flash movie.
" 
It is really a business decision between re-encoding existing video
versus creating your own Flex/Flash video player using some of the old
school Flash techniques that are out there.


I came into Flash with MX 2004, aka Flash Player 6.  So I am with
you all the way that FLV is the way to go.  The closest I ever
came to non-FLV
video in Flash was a legacy site that embedded each video on the site
in individual SWFs and then created their own player in Flash that used
loadMovie() to play each single video SWF on-demand.  At the time
my first reaction was "Why?", but when I
sat back and considered the options that were available pre-FLV, I
understood.

So if it makes sense for KP to use Flex to play, or should I say control playback of, his existing videos encoded in .mov,.mpeg,wmv,etc. it can be done.  He will just have create his own custom player ;-)

 
And KP, if you know what to google for, there is are still a lot of
Flash how-to related links out there.  (Note:  many large
commercial sites have now converted their video libraries to FLV and
thus have taken down their old content integrating Flash with WMV and
Quicktime.)

For more "Geez!  I can't believe they did that!" fun check out these too:

  Flash 4!  March 24, 2000 Making Interactive QuickTime Video, 

  May 8, 2002 How to simulate video in Macromedia Flash, Macromedia Technote!  (Look Ma!  No video, but it looks like video!)

  
  Jan 6, 2006 Windows media player embed in div over flash movie?
 (runnable prototype)


Oh, and THANK YOU MACROMEDIA FOR FLV!!!!  ... AND ESPECIALLY FOR FLV WITH On2!!!!

Oh yeah, AND FOR FLEX 2 TOO!  :-)

g
 On 9/11/06, Abdul Qabiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:



Hi,Adobe Flash Player can only player .flv
files, you can however covert other videos types (.avi, .wmv etc) to
.flv using Open Source tool FFMPEG.Conversion takes depending on the length and compression of the video files. Some of the conversions might not work properly..
You also have to take care of different licensing issues..-abdulOn 9/11/06, 
greg h <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:












  


    
            KP,

You are correct that the Flex 2 mx.controls.VideoDisplay and the 

flash.media.Video that it utilizes are FLV only (either streaming via FMS or progressive).

Regarding running video files with different formats
(.mov,.mpeg,wmv,etc.), yes that was commonplace with Flash prior to the
introduction of the FLV format with Flash Player 6.

I came up with the following after googling:  Flash Quicktime
Integrating Flash and QuickTime for Dynamic Media Delivery

If you can integrate Flash with the playback of other video formats,
surely you can do it with Flex 2.  But I advise that you should
not expect components from Adobe for supporting streaming formats other
than FLV.  Not with FLV now so ubiquitous, and with the solid
quality with the FLV On2 codec introduced with Flash 8.

If others do not post with more here about integrating Flex in players
for other video formats, you might try posting also on the Flashcoders list. 


hth,

gOn 9/11/06, KP <


[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:















Hi All,

 

I want to run video files with format (.mov,.mpeg,wmv)
etc.

 

But what I found when I tried to use video controller that
is present in flex components it supports only flv formats files.

 

Is there any way of running video files with different formats.

 

Please Help.

 

Thanks

KP











      

    
    

















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