[Flashcoders] video playing help - newbie

2006-08-04 Thread Dan McCullough
Do you know of a way to make the movie automatically play on the first visit but then if you come back to the page after viewing another page, the video doesn't auto-play? Basically, they don't like the fact that every time you go to the home page, the movie starts over. Do you know of a fix

Re: [Flashcoders] video playing help - newbie

2006-08-04 Thread Frank Lawlor
Use the flash shared object to set a flash cookie. This way, when the user comes back, the playhead will skip the intro and go to a specified frame. You can also use it to control an flv or anything else. // sets flash shared object version = SharedObject.getLocal(intro_data); // if first time,

Re: [Flashcoders] video playing help - newbie

2006-08-04 Thread Lyndon Headley
Could either use shared object to determine if the computer had viewed the video before, or perhaps some user-variable on a server side script. I suppose good old cookies might even do the trick. I typically prefer shared objects to cookies. For no particular reason, just find them easier I