[Flashcoders] Flash 8 video encoder causing spontaneous reboot! Help!

2006-04-02 Thread Brad Kozak
I'm in the process of encoding a bunch of :30 sec TV commercials for my
portfolio. I'm encoding them with the FL8 Video Encoder. All was well, until
my laptop crashed mid-encode. Now every time I attempt to encode, about
halfway through the video, the computer spontanously acts as if I've press
the power button, and shuts itself off. Note - it doesnt' crash - it does an
orderly (unstoppable) shutdown.

The same thing happens if I try to encode a single video using Flash 8
itself. Ditto for Sorenson Squeeze 4.3. As long as I'm using on2 VP6, I'm
boned. (Squeeze works, just fine, if I use the Sorenson codec, but the file
size suffers - dramatically - and I'd much rather use the on2 VP6 codec.)

I've deduced from this, that the VP6 encoder must be pooched, but I have no
idea where to find the file that might be corrupted. If I could find the
offending file(s), I might be able to pull copies from another
computer/installation, and overwrite them.

On the other hand, it might be better to simply re-install Flash, however I
don't want to do it, then get some message about how I've exceeded the
number of installations and I can just bloody well go buy a new copy of
Flash 8.

That would be bad.

Any ideas as to what might be wrong...and what I can do to fix this problem?


Thanks!

Brad Kozak

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[Flashcoders] looking for some .NET to Flash tools

2006-03-30 Thread Brad Kozak
I'm working on a project that involves a .NET backend database. So far,
we've successfully used XPath/XML to interface with the DB, but the database
guy wants to eliminate the XML output. He's not willing to invest in
ColdFusion, so I was wondering if anybody knows of a component that might
make it easy (read: "brain-dead simple") to interface with a .NET database.

Thanks!

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[Flashcoders] FLV cuepoints scrubbing

2006-01-26 Thread Brad Kozak
I'm putting together some video tutorials in Flash 8, using FLVs with
transparency. I'm using cue points to trigger events – specifically turning
on and off illustrations, pictures, and movie clips behind the video. My
client wants viewers to be able to scrub back to any point they like. This
presents a problem though, as follows: let's say I trigger an MC to be
visible at 1:30 and invisible at 2:00 in the playback. The visitor watches
until 2:15, then stops, and scrubs back to, say 1:45. If I simply trigger
the visible state on and off at the cue points, the visitor won't see the
background when they scrub back to 1:45. I need to know how I can fix this.
I'm assuming that there's a way to do this with listeners, but I'm not sure
how to go about it.



Any help would be greatly appreciated!


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