Need Help... using sound and audio outside flash from flash link

[weilerino]

My client has some sound clips (MP3s) and a video clip (an MPG file) that they want to include on their site.

They don't want to embed it into the flash file, they want a button you click on and the video or sound is downloaded and played by the appropriate player...

I can't get it to work... I'm not sure what AS I should be using. I tried:

on (release) {
getURL ("media/clip1.mp3", "_blank");
}


But I can't get it to work...

Any help?

P.S. I'm still using Flash 5...

[hp3]

Not sure what else you can do other than loading from an HTML link.

There seems to be no guarantee that a 3rd party app like RealOne or Windows Media will launch from a Flash getURL statement. For some reason the browser will launch the app from HTML link but does not work as well from getURL.

[weilerino]

thanks hp3...

i was also told to use _self instead of _blank... i'll try that out and see how that works.

this is one of those clients that doesn't "get it"...

[hp3]

_self will probably unload the window containing the flash movie.

have you tried loading into an IFRAME or frameset?

[weilerino]

Originally posted by hp3
_self will probably unload the window containing the flash movie.

have you tried loading into an IFRAME or frameset?

no... what would that possibly do?

[saturday]

I presently can't help as far as flash is concerned - I'm just starting to figure that one out! but you CAN still do this by embedding the sound file in the page, that's a normal html page.

Do you have Ms FrontPage? perhaps?
in that program, you have two options.. one is to also downlaod the "add-in", to add "insert windows media player" as a menu item, or you can "insert" "advanced" "plug-in" either of these ways will embed the sound file into the page - or rather I should say the player interface - which will in turn - when the site visitor clicks the play button - the sound wil Stream in - no downloading beforehand, no temp file.. just click n listen ! I could also recommend for this method - converting the mp3's to "wma" - much much much smaller file size - though streaming it doesnt really matter - but if host space is a matter - then this will solve that - ( 1 minute of sound for 140k !! )
I'v run over this very briefly here - but there are areas you might not be familiar with ~ so any elaborations needed or questions - u can email, I'll be happy to help out. if I can. (hopefuly!