Dynamic video loading

Hi,

I'm new to video and flash and I've been looking for a way to dynamic import video into flash.

I've created flash websites before on which the webmaster only has to upload jpgs to the server. Flash connects to the server with php and so dynamically loads the jpgs. We've all seen that...

But is there a way to make this happen with video? The webmaster uploads a bunch of quicktime .mov files to the server. Flash connects to the server with php and dynamically loads one of the .mov files?

Is it even possible to dynamically load a quicktime movie or any video format into Flash at all?

For instance: Flash connects with php, php goes and picks up the name of the newest .mov and returns it's name to the Flash movie. Flash on it's turn loads this movie based on the name and path given by the php script...

It's pretty important for this project that the video doesn't have to be encoded first. I would like to dynamically load regular quicktime movies.

Hope anyone can help me with this!!

Cheers,
Gekke_Hollander

We use PHP to load movies all the time, just like .jpgs, but you have to use Squeeze or Flix to convert to .swf files first. You can't load .mov into Flash, they must be converted first.

Thanx for the reply Wheels.

Converting, that's what I thought... it kinda sucks :(
Converting to swf or flv... well that kinda ruins the usabillity. Isn't there a way to do this server based? Like there was for jpg2swf back in the days you weren't able to load jpgs into Flash?

Cheers,
Gekke_Hollander

Wildform may have something like that.

http://www.wildform.com

Thanx again for the reply Wheels!

So I should convert my video to swf first. Why not FLV? OR can FLV files not be dynamically loaded? And do you know of any good tutorials on this matter?

Thanx!
Gekke_Hollander

Anyone?

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'can FLV files not be dynamically loaded?'

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Cheers,
Gekke_Hollander

Sorry I didn't reply sooner, the board was acting funny the other day - couldn't get the reply button.

Anyway, you can only stream .flv's in 2004, or in MX6 with a FlashComm server.

Thanx for the reply!

I found what I was looking for at theMM website

One weird thing I found out with those FLV files though. Once I exported a file as flashkit.flv and then later on rename it to another name it won't play anymore. Is this a bug?

Cheers,
Gekke_Hollander