Get the video to play

[Dstoverden]

I can take a .avi file, encode it and get my flv file, can send the required files to my server. Individually they play on the web. OK.

But how do I drop the flv file onto the stage of my movie and then how do I set up a button which will activate that video during TEST MOVIE?

I believe this has something to do with the FLVPlayback Component. That name seems to fit.
It looks like the Parameters box is the key, where I set the values including automatic playback. Then it looks like I apply a skin. Save the flash file in the same folder as the flv file....and voila.... it should work.

Does this sound right? To any guhrus looking in?

[deadbeat]

Yeah, that's about right...for more details, see:

http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash...html#wp3705095

K.

[Dstoverden]

By gosh, it works. Thanks. And it wasn't as hard as it looks. I cringe when I see two pages of text explaining computer software.

Now for the real test. I want to drop a small 240x180 video behind a masked area which will be designed to look like the viewer is looking through the window and into a home where a large screen tV is playing.

My video hopefully will play on that masked layer with no problem. Then I want to have a button on the outside that toggles two other videos that will alternately play. I don't see any unsolvable problems jsut thinking out loud. (thinking always hurts).