Hey Harry. I wasn't meaning to berate (or discourage) you, just a pointer for next time you need some help so that everyone involved can come to the solution as quickly as possible :). As you would know from any programming problem, when you can't limit the scope of the issue and know all the moving parts, it is very hard to get to the root cause.
Either Flow player or JW media player are a great resource for people who don't yet have the skills (or perhaps the time) to write a player from scratch.They both have a nice js api you cal call from your html page to control everything from the file(s) to play, to the look and feel of the player. Let me apologize for making the assumption that you had no programming experience. I thought pretty much every programmer had been exposed to foobar at some stage of looking at example code. Obviously this is not the case (even though they have been in common usage since the 60's - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foobar ) Anyhow, once you chose a player swf, and you know what parameters you need to pass to it, use the swfobject generator to help you format the code correctly. There is also a good tutorial style site on swfobject which goes into vaariuous real world exmaples here: http://learnswfobject.com/ Cheers, Aran On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Harry Hooper <[email protected]>wrote: > Aran; > > Please allow me to apologize for not stating that I didn't have the > proper swf file initially, but I did't know about it. Sorry. > > Thank you for the info on flowplayer and jw mediaplayer. I'll take a > look at them. That will probably be what I need. > > Actually, I'm new to Flash programming but not new to programming. > I'm a retired AS400/RPG programmer who got started on web programming > in '04. > > Again, allow me to apologize for my ignorance and thank you for taking > the time to point me in the right direction. I'll take a look there > and when I come back I'll have a better handle on this. > > Thanx > h...@rry > > On Aug 10, 4:50 pm, Aran Rhee <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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]> > > > > > > ... > > > > read more ยป > > -- > 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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