[RESOLVED] Playing videos using querystring

[mgunnels]

I am running into some issues. I have created a loading video that plays on top of the main FLV until it is done buffering and then disappears. This should be straight forward, however, it does not work for me. WHAT AM I MISSING??? Please see my code below; the commented out text is my code that does not work. If I uncomment any of it the SWF will no longer work. Please help:

import fl.video.FLVPlayback;

var videoSource:String;
var myFlvplayback:FLVPlayback;

var inited:Boolean = false;

if (inited == false){
inited = true;

//myFLVPlayback.bufferTime = 15;
//myFLVPlayback.playWhenEnoughDownloaded();
myFlvplayback.skin = “flash/SkinOverPlaySeekMute.swf”;

try {

var paramObj:Object = LoaderInfo(this.root.loaderInfo).parameters;

if(paramObj.videourl){

videoSource = paramObj.videourl;
playTheVideo();
}

} catch (error:Error) {

}
}

function playTheVideo():void{

myFlvplayback.source = videoSource;
}

//myFLVPlayback.addEventListener(VideoEvent.BUFFERIN G_STATE_ENTERED, Buffering);
//
// function Buffering(e:VideoEvent):void {
// splashVideo.seek(1);
// splashVideo.visible = true;
// splashVideo.play();
//}
//
//myFLVPlayback.addEventListener(VideoEvent.PLAYING_ STATE_ENTERED, PlayingVid);
//
//function PlayingVid(e:VideoEvent):void{
// splashVideo.visible = false;
//}
//
//
//myFLVPlayback.addEventListener(VideoEvent.COMPLETE , EndOfVid);
//
//function EndOfVid(e:VideoEvent):void{
// splashVideo.visible = false;
//}

[Beathoven]

What errors are you getting?

[mgunnels]

1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: VideoEvent.

[Beathoven]

Add this in your imports:

import fl.video.VideoEvent;

[mgunnels]

Now I am getting this error:
1120: Access of undefined property myFLVPlayback.

[Beathoven]

This line

var myFlvplayback:FLVPlayback;

should read this

var myFlvplayback:FLVPlayback = new FLVPlayback();

You created the variable and datatyped it but never created the object associated to it.

[mgunnels]

still getting this:
1120: Access of undefined property myFLVPlayback.

thanks for the help.

[Beathoven]

You are interchanging between uppercase and lower case

This is how you defined it:

myFlvplayback

And then sometimes you call it like this:

myFLVPlayback

make sure you're using the same case everywhere. If that's not the problem, you'll have to tell me what line is throwing the error

[mgunnels]

Here is the most up-to-date code:
import fl.video.VideoEvent;
import fl.video.FLVPlayback;

var videoSource:String;
var myFlvplayback:FLVPlayback = new FLVPlayback();

var inited:Boolean = false;
splashVideo.visible = false;
if (inited == false){
inited = true;

myFlvPlayback.bufferTime = 15;
myFlvPlayback.playWhenEnoughDownloaded();
myFlvplayback.skin = "flash/SkinOverPlaySeekMute.swf";

try {

var paramObj:Object = LoaderInfo(this.root.loaderInfo).parameters;

if(paramObj.videourl){

videoSource = paramObj.videourl;
playTheVideo();
}

} catch (error:Error) {

}
}

function playTheVideo():void{

myFlvplayback.source = videoSource;
}

myFlvPlayback.addEventListener(VideoEvent.BUFFERIN G_STATE_ENTERED, Buffering);

function Buffering(e:VideoEvent):void {
splashVideo.seek(1);
splashVideo.visible = true;
splashVideo.play();
}

myFlvPlayback.addEventListener(VideoEvent.PLAYING_ STATE_ENTERED, PlayingVid);

function PlayingVid(e:VideoEvent):void{
splashVideo.visible = false;
}


myFlvPlayback.addEventListener(VideoEvent.COMPLETE , EndOfVid);

function EndOfVid(e:VideoEvent):void{
splashVideo.visible = false;
}

I took a screen shot here is a link: http://www.davidlewis.com/TestFlashf...eenShot041.png

[Beathoven]

Buddy you didn't fix what I told you!

Look, I bolded out your definition (myFlvplayback) and all the other bolded out ones you call with a capital 'P' (myFlvPlayback).

var videoSource:String;
var myFlvplayback:FLVPlayback = new FLVPlayback();

var inited:Boolean = false;
splashVideo.visible = false;
if (inited == false){	
inited = true;

myFlvPlayback.bufferTime = 15;
myFlvPlayback.playWhenEnoughDownloaded();	
myFlvplayback.skin = "flash/SkinOverPlaySeekMute.swf";

try {

var paramObj:Object = LoaderInfo(this.root.loaderInfo).parameters;

if(paramObj.videourl){

videoSource = paramObj.videourl;
playTheVideo();
}

} catch (error:Error) {

}
}

function playTheVideo():void{

myFlvplayback.source = videoSource;
}

myFlvPlayback.addEventListener(VideoEvent.BUFFERIN G_STATE_ENTERED, Buffering);

function Buffering(e:VideoEvent):void {
splashVideo.seek(1);	
splashVideo.visible = true;
splashVideo.play();
}

myFlvPlayback.addEventListener(VideoEvent.PLAYING_ STATE_ENTERED, PlayingVid);

function PlayingVid(e:VideoEvent):void{
splashVideo.visible = false;
}


myFlvPlayback.addEventListener(VideoEvent.COMPLETE , EndOfVid);

function EndOfVid(e:VideoEvent):void{
splashVideo.visible = false;
}

[mgunnels]

OK, i am an IDIOT!!!! I am not getting errors anymore, but now the video is not showing on the page. When I uncomment these items the video plays. I have included my source files here. The reason the rar is so large as I included the FLV that it is trying to play. thanks for all your help:
http://www.davidlewis.com/TestFlashf...ideoPlayer.rar

[Beathoven]

Oops. Nevermind.

[Beathoven]

Can you trace paramObj.videourl before passing it to video source?

[mgunnels]

I am not exactly sure what this will do for me. If you notice the video audio plays. It is very strange.

[Beathoven]

I didn't download the file.

[Beathoven]

Tracing the paramObj.videourl would tell you what that variable contains. In this case, what I was trying to accomplish is seeing if the FLVPlayback object was actually being passed something as a source.

Did you take this code out of somewhere else? I notice you have extra white space in your event listeners.

And what's splashvideo? Shouldn't splashvideo be myFlvplayback instead?

I don't see myFlvplayback being added to the display list at any point.

[mgunnels]

Your last comment made me review the code and think about it. I figured it out. Everything was correct except that I had added some code to hide the splashvideo late last night because it kept popping up. I removed that one line of code and all is good! Thanks so much for your HELP!!!

[Beathoven]

You're welcome. Please mark the thread as resolved. (Top right, Thread Tools -> Mark Thread Resolved)