Linking video from a Flash website to play in the viewers default media player?

[kiwir0b]

Hi,

I have a Flash website with several video files not embeded. Is it possible for the viewer of the site to click on a video link within my site that loads the video externaly in the viewers default media player such as Windows Media Player? I've seen this done on Html sites and the video buffers as it loads.

I use Mx 2004

Does anyone know if and how this can be done?


Thanks.

[ogri]

tou need to encode them for streaming first.

windows media encoder does this and its free
you can only stream one file at a time though
and max 5 connected users at a time

then your action script should look like this

on (release) {
Geturl("mms://ip address of stream inc port number");
}

[PROXUS]

why not to play it within your site? at least you control what they see. No codecs problem etc.