Browser reading FLV progress in flash

[louissoriano]

Hi. I would need some help on one of my flash project. There are 3 flv movie in my flash page. Is there a way to indicate in my flash page if the flv movie is already viewed on user's browser? I need to put a mark on the movie if one of them is already viewed? Am I to use Shared Object? Thank you very much for your time.

[Karatorian]

How are the flash movies being displayed? I'm assuming that they're wrapped in some sort of video player. In that case, it would depend on the details of the player.

[louissoriano]

Thank you for your reply. Actually I have this flash movie, and I imported 3 FLV videos, The setting I placed is progressive downloading so the FLV files are not embedded on SWF.

http://demo.cpscreative.com/metlife/

What I need is some indication on each flv movie (like a check or something) if the video has already been viewed in user's browser. Is Shared Object the solution for that to communicate externally thru browsers?

[whispers]

If you want to communicate with the browser through an embedded flash movei in the same page..

you can use ExternalInterface() to declare a function either inside of flash that can be called by an HTML link (for example)... or a function in the HTML page (js perhaps) that can be called by the flash movie..


this basically allows for two way communication from the flash to the container page.

I would think.. if you want to use a SHARED OBJECT (which is like a FLASH cookie)..

the flash movie can set a var if the movie has been viewed or not..

HOWEVER... every time a page loads or you want to check this shared object you need to have a FLASH movie read/check for it..

[louissoriano]

Ok thank you very much. Will try this out and give some feedback.