help urgent!!! for multiple flv's in one swf

[mona22]

greetings everyone
i am new to this forum and i someone qill come to my flash rescue fairly soon....

i am currently building a page that will contain 40 different flv's in 1 swf. i have changed the content path in the parameters section of the flv component to the published address of the individual flv. but it still giving me the same message "*********Warning** The linkage identifier 'FLVPlayback' was already assigned to the symbol '2/2_illusion', and cannot be assigned to the symbol 'ALL_1/1_pumpkin', since linkage identifiers must be unique******

i do not want to use elaborate actionscripting to use the video object option and would really like to keep the content-path way (just making it work!!!!!)

generally i'd like to keep it really simple anyway.......any help on that from any of you flash wizards would be greatly appreciated.
thanks a lot

[EQFlash]

what actionscript version are you using? do you want 1 flvplayer for all 40? maybe i can help

[mona22]

thanks for your quick reply
i am using actionscript 1 and do not really know what a flv player is. it's actually really funny, since i have become a webdesigner in 2001 and even since uploading my first website in 2005 how rapidly things and in this case flash has been changing.
what i have been doing now is to upload the flv onto my server and import the video from there. the only actionscripting i have been (iand would ideally keep using for the rest of my life hahaha) is the goto command from each of the invisible buttons sitting on the main timeline to go to the individual frame where let's say MC no35 would be located and then the movie clip starts playing (displaying image/ some text/ and the flv ) and then there is a simple button taking the person visiting back to the root time line.
it's really that simple......
so the main thing for me at the moment is to get rid of that **Warning** The linkage identifier 'FLVPlayback' was already assigned to the symbol 'FLVPlayback', and cannot be assigned to the symbol '2/2_illusion', since linkage identifiers must be unique********
i would really appreciate if you can literally take me from there and not drown me in a lot of complicated actionscripting. i am terrible with using my brain in these kinds of ways......thanks a lot

[EQFlash]

ok the basic idea is to have 40 different flv videos in 1 flash movie, with buttons to take you to each flv player, correct? are you using flash 8 at least, cause this can be done with very little actionscript, or it can be done with an xml file and not to much actionscript, (which is the preferable way to do it.) the script would be in actionscript 2.0. Do you at least have flash mx 2004?

[mona22]

just because i am not using flash cs3 (which by the way i do have , but do not want to use) doesn't mean i am working still with flash 4. sooooo yes i am working with flash 8 where i thought u do not need be a high level mathematician to at least do something with it. but my focus is totally on messaging myself rather than having a lot of fancy stuff going.
i do not mind a bit more of basic actionscripting (as long as it repeats itself for all the rest of the 39 follow ups and da moans can just do copy/paste)........... that'll do......... thanks for your patience

[EQFlash]

you can do this in this manner. place a flvplayer component on the stage. and give it an instance name, say myFlv. then place as many buttons as you want, and on each button put this actionscript;

on(release){
   myFlv.contentPath = "your_video.flv";
} 

each button will contain the name of a separate video, so when you click on a button, that video will play. click on another button and that video will play.
and so on. does this make sense?

[mona22]

greetings...... i feel really frustrated now......yeah your script makes sense, but when i translate it into
on(press){
4_video.contentPath = "4_GRANDMOTHER EARTH I CRY.flv";
}

it keeps telling me i do have scripting errors, which i am really not able to spot

also my little videos are actually playing automatically as soon as the the individual MC opens, meaning every single video is sitting inside an individual MC, so i wasn't really needing a button to press it, i thought i could try it with the button just to replay it, since i chose a skin that only allows stop/and volume control to match the width of my tiny mobile phone videos (each of them is only 10 secs long)

so in a way i am having 2 problems now.... it still giving me the warning with the linkage and the button has scripting errors.
if you could help me any further that'll be great, since i am about to throw my computer against the wall......

[EQFlash]

apparently you have type in the .flv file name in the component's parameter panel, or it would not know what to play until you pressed the button to play it. let me show you an example of the flvplayer component with a button.

[mona22]

thanks for your support, but your video doesn't play when i am opening it with cs3.....i can't see any content path filled in your parameters section for your video......maybe i am just confused....i don't know. ........i wasn't aware that i can send fla's. would you mind having a look at mine? that would probably be a lot easier than just keep describing what's happening.

[EQFlash]

that's just a sample of how to do it. replace my video with yours, and make sure the path is correct, or that the fla is saved in the same folder as the video you want to play. You can post your fla.

[mona22]

halleluja....it's too big to post it. i was wondering if you have a googlemail account, because they are allowing much larger attachments........i really appreciate that you taking all this time to help me out.......

[EQFlash]

you have a pm with my email address