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Could anyone tell me how to get the slidey control thingy to work (lets get technical :rolleyes: ) on the media player. The slide control shows how much of the movie is loaded but when I try to move the small slider across a shaded part of the loaded movie, it won't work.
I had a look at some of the historical posts but couldnt make much sense of them.
Hope this makes sense..
Thanks in advance
Kev.
Are you making a Skin? If using existing skin there's not anything you need to do.
I just tried
http://bretlanius.com/flash/lab/metal240.html and it works fine. It is possible it has to do with the server speed. As with out a true streaming server it is still really only a progressive download and you can only shuttle to a portion that is loaded.
Actionscript hasn't got a decent function to determine the length of the movie. The only way is to read metadata stored in the flv file. Most encoders put the length of the movie in but not all do. If no length is stored (iRed skin for example will show no total time), you can't drag to another point in time. If that's your problem, there's a free tool on the internet named flvtool2 that can inject the length of the movie into the metadata of the flv file. If that's not your problem, please explain some more.
hey thanks Guys, that does sound like the problem i will have a look at the flvtool2 and let you know how I get on. (and yes I am using an existig skin)
Thanks again
Kev.
For info: the flvtool2 is a command line tool and if you have problems working out what switches to use try the following..
I used a gui based one which was as easy as point and click, for reference i used...
FLVMDI 2.94 (flvmdi294exe.zip 228KB)
FLVMDIGUI 1.05 (flvmdigui105.zip 453KB)
from
http://www.buraks.com/flvmdi/
You need to extract both into a single folder and fire up the gui. Then just locate the source file (flv) and rename the output file and click the button labeled "Run FLVMDI"
And hey presto
Worked a charm!! :)
Thanks again or as they say here in portugal
Obrigado
Kev.