Comments on: Why Won’t my FLV Load on the Web!?

By: Nick Burman

Nick Burman — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 22:17:14 +0000

I’m nearly a year late, so perhaps some kind of update fixed it in the meantime (nah, I doubt it.. )
I was embedding video in Flash this week, and indeed, ‘Mac Flash’ appended a very unhelpful ‘/Users/Nicholas/’ etc. to the beginning of the path. All I had to do was edit the pathname twice - enter pathname, click OK, edit again(removing the extraneous path details), click OK - and it stuck. I just uploaded the swf as usual, with the movie files exactly where I wanted them and it worked.

By: Erinn

Erinn — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:46:53 +0000

where do you find the flv component?

By: Derek Nugent

Derek Nugent — Thu, 20 May 2010 18:43:12 +0000

I have some trouble USING MovieClips dynamically added using a for loop. They appear on the stage but I can’t modify them.

I’m not sure if you’ll be able to see the following code but I’ve included for your viewing displeasure! : )

for (var i:Number = 0; i < 4; i++){
root["star" + i + "_mc"] = new star();
addChild(root["star" + i + "_mc"]);

root["star" + i + "_mc"].scaleX = (i * 0.1);
root["star" + i + "_mc"].scaleY = (i * 0.1);
root["star" + i + "_mc"].x = ((i * 10) + (root["star" + i + "_mc"].width));
root["star" + i + "_mc"].y = ((i * 10) + (root["star" + i + "_mc"].height));

trace(”i = ” + i);

}

Any assistance you can offer would be greatly appreciated
Cheers!

By: Alex Wilkinson

Alex Wilkinson — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:12:13 +0000

Hey, I found a solution based off your advice using CS4.

Go to the “component inspector panel” (located under instance name box), change “contentPath” to a relative path (ie blah.f4v), re-publish, and then it will work on your server.

I have no idea why they use absolute paths for .flv’s and .f4v’s. Bizarre.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:03:34 +0000

I heard heard you say this website when i was on chapter 3- 3 of Flash Essential Training

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:00:54 +0000

Do you have other tutorial on lynda.com about flash??

By: acassity

acassity — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:55:15 +0000

I would like to request a movie series that tackles JUST PUBLISHING MOVIES and the factors that would help Designers, Artists, Flashster and Clients work together seemlessly communicate projects creatively and successfully publishing awesome new ideas and clients secure in knowing that a time frame, size requirements and cost windows were met. Realtime project experience is good but it’s important to be armed with the best information before getting into a professional project for a client.

By: wdalhaj

wdalhaj — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:25:09 +0000

Thanks for sharing that great idea,,
am wondering if i used the relative link in swf file to call flv file,,
what is the advantage and disadvantage of using this way in our case?
thanx in advenced!!

By: Christine

Christine — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:43:19 +0000

Just wanted to let you know I struggled with this exact problem for 2 days - searching and searching for an answer and never finding one. I finally figured out the issue myself, but decided I’d better learn some more AS3.0 to see if I was still missing something. After listening to your whole course (very good by the way), and deciding to check out your homepage here - there is the answer. Thank you for being the one place that clearly put it out there!

By: Dan Farthin

Dan Farthin — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:14:28 +0000

Todd, You are a amazing teacher, i have watched ALL of your videos on lynda.com. Thank you so much for all of your help and sharing of your knowledge!

Dan Farthing,
San Francisco, CA