Harry. Not having a swf to handle the reading or playback of the video file location - That would have been something nice to know from your first post... In future, please explain the situation fully (you'll save yourself and anyone responding a bunch of time and frustration)
Coding a video player .swf to handle flashvars etc is outside of the scope of this list. I can suggest a couple of things: 1) Go and grab one of the open source video players like flowplayer or jw mediaplayer. They are already setup to handle the flashvars, playback of mp4 videos etc. This means you don't have to code the player from scratch and you can jsut customise the look and feel 2) Ask some questions on genraliss flash forums like kirupa.com or actionscript.org BTW - "foo" (and "bar") are example variables which are used in teaching/examples to to show how to implement something (but not to confuse the reader that it is the real variable to be used). These are not terms just for Flash, so I am guessing you are pretty new to programming full stop.I appreciate learning development skills can have a learning curve, but you might want to do some further reading/ follow some tuts on general javascript and Flash development so that you have some basic concepts under your belt. Aran On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Harry Hooper <[email protected]>wrote: > I don't have a "passing.swf". That was just something I copied from > some code I found. All I have is several video files (swf) that I > converted from MP4s. > > How do I get a "passing.swf" and set it up to handle the video > variable? > > flashvars.foo = swfobject.getQueryParamValue("foo");. I have seen > this code but I didn't understand the "foo" part of it. > > I'm a newbie at flash and would appreciate any help and code you could > provide. Most of the material I've been reading assumes I know a lot > more about it than I do. > > Thanx > h...@rry > > > > On Aug 10, 3:47 pm, Aran Rhee <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ok, so can we verify that the variable value is available in js? > > > > <% > > dim video > > video = request("video") > > %> > > > > <script language=javascript> > > var jVideo = "<%= video%>"; > > alert(jVideo); > > </script> > > > > Once we know everything is happy in js land, then we can remove asp as > part > > of the issue. > > > > Just to confirm, your passing.swf IS setup to handle the video varialbe > and > > will do what it needs to with the string to laod and display the video > file, > > yes? > > > > BTW - if you are just passing the video variable in the querystring, the > > swfobject already has a util function to grab the variable etc: > > > > flashvars.foo = swfobject.getQueryParamValue("foo"); > > > > http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/wiki/api > > > > Aran > > > > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Harry Hooper <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > > > This is the code above the <object> code > > > > > <% > > > dim video > > > video = request("video") > > > response.write(video) > > > %> > > > > > The response.write indicates that the correct parm is being read. > > > > > I'm a newbie at this flash code but it seems that there might be a way > > > to somehow declare a variable in the flash code. I have no way of > > > doing that. I create a flash move from a MP4 movie with a free > > > converter I found. > > > > > I'm at my wit's end trying to figure this out. It seems like it > > > should be so simple but I can't get it to work. I think I'm > > > overlooking some simple thing. > > > > > Thanx > > > Harry > > > > > On Aug 10, 8:19 am, Aran Rhee <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Well, that is not a client-side error, so there must be something in > your > > > > asp code.... > > > > > > have you declared <%=video%> with a value somewhere? > > > > > > Aran > > > > > > On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Harry Hooper < > [email protected] > > > >wrote: > > > > > > > Tried that - got this error: > > > > > > > Server Error in '/' Application. > > > > > Compilation Error > > > > > Description: An error occurred during the compilation of a resource > > > > > required to service this request. Please review the following > specific > > > > > error details and modify your source code appropriately. > > > > > > > Compiler Error Message: BC30451: Name 'video' is not declared. > > > > > > > Source Error: > > > > > > > Line 13: <object > classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" > > > > > width="800" height="450" id="player1"> > > > > > Line 14: <param name="movie" value="passing.swf" /> > > > > > Line 15: <param name="flashvars" value="video=<%=video%>" /> > > > > > Line 16: <!--[if !IE]>-- > > > > > Line 17: <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" > > > > > data="passing.swf" width="800" height="450"> > > > > > > > On Aug 7, 1:55 pm, Aran Rhee <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > First of all, you are not using SWFObject on your page / code > > > example. I > > > > > > will assume you do actually want to use > > > > > > > > Have a brief (re)read of the documentation. > > > > > > > > If you want to pass data to the swf, then generally you want to > use > > > the > > > > > > flashvars param. Below is a full code example (assuming that > > > <%=video%> > > > > > does > > > > > > actually contain the string you are expecting) > > > > > > > > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" " > > > > >http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";> > > > > > > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; lang="en" > xml:lang="en"> > > > > > > <head> > > > > > > <title></title> > > > > > > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; > > > charset=iso-8859-1" > > > > > /> > > > > > > <script type="text/javascript" src=" > > > > >http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/swfobject/2.2/swfobject.js > > > "></script> > > > > > > <script type="text/javascript"> > > > > > > swfobject.registerObject("player1", "7.0.0"); > > > > > > </script> > > > > > > </head> > > > > > > <body> > > > > > > <div> > > > > > > <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" > > > width="800" > > > > > > height="450" id="player1"> > > > > > > <param name="movie" value="passing.swf" /> > > > > > > <param name="flashvars" value="video=<%=video%>" /> > > > > > > <!--[if !IE]>--> > > > > > > <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="passing.swf" > > > > > width="800" > > > > > > height="450"> > > > > > > <param name="flashvars" value="video=<%=video%>" /> > > > > > > <!--<![endif]--> > > > > > > alt content here > > > > > > <!--[if !IE]>--> > > > > > > </object> > > > > > > <!--<![endif]--> > > > > > > </object> > > > > > > </div> > > > > > > </body> > > > > > > </html> > > > > > > > > I suggest in future, you check out the swfobject generator. It > helps > > > you > > > > > > make sure your code is all correct and ready to go: > > > > >http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/wiki/generator > > > > > > > > Aran > > > > > > <http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/wiki/generator> > > > > > > > > On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Harry Hooper < > > > [email protected] > > > > > >wrote: > > > > > > > > > I am able to post flash videos to my website as long as I can > hard > > > > > > > code the video filename into the <object> code. Like this: > > > > > > > > > <object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" > > > > > > > codebase=" > > >http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/ > > > > > > > swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0" width="800" height="450" > id="player1" > > > > > > > align="middle"> > > > > > > > <param name="movie" value="passing.swf"/> > > > > > > > <param name="menu" value="false"/> > > > > > > > <param name="quality" value="high"/> > > > > > > > <param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"/> > > > > > > > <noscript><a href=" > http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/products/dvd/Free- > > > > > > > YouTube-Download.htm">youtube video</a></noscript> > > > > > > > <embed src="passing.swf" menu="false" quality="high" > > > bgcolor="#FFFFFF" > > > > > > > width="800" height="450" name="player" align="middle" > > > > > > > allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" > type="application/x-shockwave-flash" > > > > > > > pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"/> > > > > > > > </object> > > > > > > > > > I have a page that allows the video to be selected from a list > that > > > is > > > > > > > populated from an Access database. I want the page to then call > a > > > > > > > generic flash page with an HTML parm of filename and have the > > > single > > > > > > > page display all the videos from my site. The parm is being > passed > > > and > > > > > > > received but I can't get the flash player pick it up and play > it. > > > The > > > > > > > value passed is being received in a variable named "video". I > have > > > > > > > tried: > > > > > > > > > <param name="movie" value="passing.swf?video"/> > > > > > > > <param name="movie" value=<%=video %>/> > > > > > > > <param name="movie" value=Request.QueryString("video")/> > > > > > > > > > etc. All with no success. I do understand that I need to put it > in > > > > > > > both the param line and also the embed line so that's not the > > > problem. > > > > > > > I have googled this subject and found several references to the > > > <param > > > > > > > name="movie" value="passing.swf?video"/> method but they were > all > > > very > > > > > > > vague as to the method of reading the command line parm and > > > > > > > transfering it to the param line. > > > > > > > > > Thanx in advance for any help. > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the > Google > > > > > Groups > > > > > > > "SWFObject" group. > > > > > > > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]. > > > > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > > > > > [email protected]<swfobject%[email protected]> > <swfobject%[email protected]<swfobject%[email protected]> > > > > > <swfobject%[email protected]<swfobject%[email protected]> > <swfobject%[email protected]<swfobject%[email protected]> > > > > > > > > > <swfobject%[email protected]<swfobject%[email protected]> > <swfobject%[email protected]<swfobject%[email protected]> > > > > > <swfobject%[email protected]<swfobject%[email protected]> > <swfobject%[email protected]<swfobject%[email protected]> > > > > > > > > > > > . > > > > > > > For more options, visit this group at > > > > > > >http://groups.google.com/group/swfobject?hl=en. > > > > > > > -- > > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > Groups > > > > > "SWFObject" group. > > > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > > > [email protected]<swfobject%[email protected]> > <swfobject%[email protected]<swfobject%[email protected]> > > > > > <swfobject%[email protected]<swfobject%[email protected]> > <swfobject%[email protected]<swfobject%[email protected]> > > > > > > > > > . > > > > > For more options, visit this group at > > > > >http://groups.google.com/group/swfobject?hl=en. > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > > "SWFObject" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > [email protected]<swfobject%[email protected]> > <swfobject%[email protected]<swfobject%[email protected]> > > > > > . > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/swfobject?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "SWFObject" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<swfobject%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/swfobject?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SWFObject" group. 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