adding play & stop buttons to an FLV

[Adover]

im trying to control an FLV file ive imported, on the play button its a simple gotoandplay(1) on the stop... gotoandstop, but its not working?! is there anything i need to know about getting it to work?!

[Wheels]

There are tutuorials on this at: www.wildform.com and www.macromedia.com

Macromedia also has a component for this.

[Jonathan_B]

Hi.
I think Wheels meant http://www.wildform.com/tutorials.
www.flix.com is a dvd rental site.
jb

[Wheels]

Whoops!

I've got to quit posting at 4 AM!

[Mystique_MHz]

You can add your own control buttons via actionScript.


on the "play" button put this code:

on (release) {
	_root.yourvideo.play();
}

on the "stop" button put this code:

on (release) {
	_root.yourvideo.stop();
}

It's that easy
Hope this helps!

[Adover]

how about rewind and fast forward... what do u put for them?!
also go to start & goto end... cheers!!

[Mystique_MHz]

Place an instence of the movie clip with the video file on the main stage and call it "vid"

Put this code on it

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
    if (_root.ffwd == true) {
        frame = this._currentframe+5;
        this.gotoAndStop(frame);
    }
    if (_root.frwd == true) {
        frame = this._currentframe-5;
        this.gotoAndStop(frame);
    }
}

On your rewind button put this code

on (press) {
    _root.frwd = true;
}
on (release) {
    _root.frwd = false;
}

On your fast foward button put this code

on (press) {
    _root.ffwd = true;
}
on (release) {
    _root.ffwd = false;
}

For your go to star button put this code

on (release) {
    _root.vid.gotoAndStop(start);//frame lable named start
}

For your go to end button put this code

on (release) {
    _root.vid.gotoAndStop(end);//frame lable named end
}

Very easy... lots of fun! Enjoy

[Adover]

cheers m8, u've helped me out no end!!

[Mystique_MHz]

No problem... that's what we're here for *Thumb up*

[RhameJ]

Originally posted by Mystique_MHz
You can add your own control buttons via actionScript.


on the "play" button put this code:

on (release) {
	_root.yourvideo.play();
}

on the "stop" button put this code:

on (release) {
	_root.yourvideo.stop();
}

It's that easy
Hope this helps!

Sorry to drag this old topic up, but I have a question.
I used this code but it didnt work until I removed "_root."
I have my main .swf that loads another .swf that then loads the video. So I took out the _root and it worked.
But whats weird is that the ff and rw buttons will not work unless the _root is in the the code?
How come?