Video Problems! Help!

[ellisteel]

Help!

I have produced a flash movie which I intend to output onto CD. I am wanting to put 10 minutes of video on it (around 500mb) and output it as a projector file. However, importing 500mb of video into the movie is a problem - not enough memory to do it! I really don't want to link the video and output it as a quicktime file as I want the finished movie to be able to run on any computer.

Help!

[enpstudios]

Have you though about streaming your movie in ?

[ellisteel]

Sorry, I am not sure I know what streaming means...or how to do it! Any advice whould be very much apprechiated.

[Justmade]

With large video , you will find using LPFlashEx to load and control your video without importing them much better quality.

You may want to have a look at the following samples :
http://www.lpflashex.com/dl/MovieSamplesV2.zip (161KB)

There are 5 samples in the file
You can start test with publishing MovieMouseClick.fla or MMPMouseClick.fla to EXE which shown some more advanced functions. When looking at sources code, you can start with the 2 simple one first.

ChooseMovie.fla show how to write code that support both media playing engin LPFlashEx provided and let user (or your action script code) to choose at run time.

The two engin :
Movie (using Window Media Player OCX) is well testing and used by our many customer. Some also send their production using LPFlashEx for Lab test in over 20 computers with different OS (95/98/Me/2K/XP) and different hardware and scored 100% pass without any error / warning. Media Player 6.4 + is needed to play movie this way. You can use the OCX detection event to prompt user to install Media Player using your included installer or use LPFlashEx download action to download installer from Microsoft. You can see this in MovieMouseClick.fla.

MMP is a newer engin which make direct call to system to let it play media with whatever codec it got so it dont depend on a specific program. For example, if the user had any program that registered it codec to playback mpg file with system, MMP should be able to play it. It also support Audio CD playback and we may act more support to it later such as sound recording.

If you need more info or have any questions. You are welcomed to visit our web site and email me.

[enpstudios]

Moved to Flash Video !!

[CNO]

If you have a video processing program, you might want to consider chopping up your video into smaller portions (ie - 2 minute chunks), then reconstructing them in Flash. The advantage here is that you will be able to stream/buffer the upcoming segment while the previous one is playing.

Sorenson also has a product called Squeeze which exports video files in .flv format which you could stream into your Flash presentation if you are using Flash MX.

[Jonathan_B]

Hi.
500 MB is way too big.
Because of the way Flash works, when you have a SWF on CD, the Flash player loads the entire file into memory before it starts to play. So, depending on your computer's speed, ram, CD player speed, etc. your performance may vary. Consequently, we suggest not creating files larger than 25MB for use on a CD Rom. You can get around this limit by chaining your video swf's and loading them sequentially. Our software, Flix Pro, can do this for you automatically.
You can also load the video onto a server and have the projector file call the video from a server. But then the end user must be connected to the internet to view the video.
(Another issue to keep in mind is that if you're going to make Mac projectors, you need to allocate enough RAM to your projector. When preparing a CD-ROM, the projector file needs to be allocated it's own size plus the biggest Flix file plus a couple of extra MB to be on the safe side. When the HFS volume is burnt onto CD it will inherit the memory settings you've specified.)

jb
http://www.wildform.com/flix

[Frets]

Another alternative.
Following along the lines of breaking up the video
use load movie at frame for linking sequential sections.

[Forebid]

Help!

I have produced a flash movie which I intend to output onto CD. I am wanting to put 10 minutes of video on it (around 500mb) and output it as a projector file. However, importing 500mb of video into the movie is a problem - not enough memory to do it! I really don't want to link the video and output it as a quicktime file as I want the finished movie to be able to run on any computer.

Help!
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