Video playback questions

[pajohns]

Hi there,

I have a couple of questions with regards to video playback in Flash using AS 3.

I'm not very good with flash coding so I've used the default video importer to import the video (file > import > import video). However I'm trying to put an event handler in that will detect when playback has completed and then take the viewer back to the main menu. I know it has something to do with NetStatusEvent but not sure how to connect it with the video.

Additionally when a viewer is watching a video, if they click a button below the video it takes them, say, back to the main menu. However the video continues to play in the background. I have put a 'video.pause();' on any button that takes the viewer away from the video, however the video is still loading in the background which isn't the ideal.

Any help with this would be appreciated

[neznein9]

You're probably dealing with a FLVPlayback component. Try listening for the video to complete:

import fl.video.VideoEvent;

yourVideo.addEventListener(VideoEvent.COMPLETE, onVideoFinished);

function onVideoFinished(e:VideoEvent):void{
    //  go back to main menu
} 

And to stop the loading:

try{
yourVideo.stop();
yourVideo.closeVideoPlayer(0);
} catch(err:Error){} 

[pajohns]

You're probably dealing with a FLVPlayback component. Try listening for the video to complete:

import fl.video.VideoEvent;

yourVideo.addEventListener(VideoEvent.COMPLETE, onVideoFinished);

function onVideoFinished(e:VideoEvent):void{
    //  go back to main menu
} 

And to stop the loading:

try{
yourVideo.stop();
yourVideo.closeVideoPlayer(0);
} catch(err:Error){} 

Thanks for that, the first one worked beautifully. The second one though, not so well. I get the error message

VideoError: 1007: Cannot delete default VideoPlayer
	at fl.video::FLVPlayback/closeVideoPlayer()
	at workshop_fla::MainTimeline/playbtnMain()

I've nested your code into my button function which is either loading a new video or returning to the main menu which should stop playback & close the video. This is how it currently is...

function playbtnMain(evt:MouseEvent):void
{
	video.stop();
	video.closeVideoPlayer(0);
	gotoAndStop(5, "Main");
}

Any ideas?

[okdust]

use:
video.getVideoPlayer(0).close();

instead of video.closeVideoPlayer(0)

[pajohns]

use:
video.getVideoPlayer(0).close();

instead of video.closeVideoPlayer(0)

That worked - as in it didn't generate an error message and appears to remove the video and stop it from caching. Many thanks! There is still another problem, the video stays on screen, however this only happens after the fullscreen button has been pushed, followed by pushing escape (to get out the the fullscreen) and then the 'main menu' button is pushed. If I disable the fullscreen option, it works fine and the video is cleared off the screen. On frame 1 I have the video (first play) and when someone clicks the menu button it takes them to frame 5.