Has anybody built anything in Rife that delivers a Flash "progressive download" movie? I have picked through the rifers.org Theatre code, and spent a couple days flailing on this. I think at this point it would be easier to look for a working example than to try to go through the many things I have tried that don't work. I also wonder, Mr Bevin, if it would take you much more than 10 minutes to add another example to rifers?
Here is the deal, for those interested in digging deeper. A Progressive Flash movie is I think a little different from other formats, in that it really requires 3 downloads. I have been working with an example from Adobe: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/flv_tutorial.html. The chunk of code shows the 3 downloads: The player file, the skin file, and the actual flv video. The code for a static page looks like this:
<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0" width="340" height="288" id="FLVPlayer">
<param name="movie" value="FLVPlayer_Progressive.swf" />
<param name="salign" value="lt" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="scale" value="noscale" />
<param name="FlashVars" value="&MM_ComponentVersion=1&skinName=farmSkin_large&streamName=/video/clip_15&autoPlay=false&autoRewind=false" />
<src"FLVPlayer_Progressive.swf" =quality"high" =width"340" =name"FLVPlayer" =type"application/x-shockwave-flash" =/>
</object>
And now the rub(s). The player wants to find the skin and player files in the same directory (URL minus the leaf I think) as the HTML file that includes it. The skin, movie, and src values are used to derive the actual files, notice no file extensions. Also, I would prefer to stream the movie from the database. But similarly, the player wants to append the ".flv" suffix to the streamName, so the URLs generated by the content management system don't seem to work. I wonder if the solution is to stream all 3 files, and do something to give them the filename extensions that the player wants. Of course, the right solution might also include somehow customizing Flash Player to take full URLs.
Thanks all, let me know if you can point to a working example... or have any ideas for me.
- JT
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