I can play a SWF video but not a Flash Video - why?

mratanudey83

With the help of this forum members and google search i've done the following part

using this I can play a .swf video "D:\\movie.swf" - located in my hard drive...

but the issue is to play a .flv file i.e. a flash video file...

when i'm replacing the path with - "D\\flashvideo.flv" - the out put is getting blank - with a white backgruond.....

Can any one help me out??

Atanu

Thanks and Regards

Jan 23 '08 #1

kenobewan

Swf is the published file, while flv is the editable files - like the difference betwwen jpg & psd. HTH.

Jan 23 '08 #2

Andinho

Swf is the published file, while flv is the editable files - like the difference betwwen jpg & psd. HTH.

@kenobewan: nope that's wrong. flv != fla :)

@mratanudey83: If you want to play a flv - file using the AxShockwaveFlash- Object you have to load the flv into your SWF and include the SWF just the way you did it.

See here: a flv - player written in C#:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/audio-...ternalapi.aspx

Mar 11 '08 #3

Frinavale

With the help of this forum members and google search i've done the following part

[HTML]Imports AxShockwaveFlashObjects
Public Class Form1

Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
Dim axShockwaveFlash As New AxShockwaveFlash
axShockwaveFlash.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(10, 10)

Me.Controls.Add(axShockwaveFlash)
'me.Show(); Avoids InvalidActiveXStateException.

axShockwaveFlash.Movie = "D:\\movie.swf"
'it is important to set Size after specifying Movie property
'if Size is specified before, it is ignored
axShockwaveFlash.Size = New System.Drawing.Size(270, 250)
axShockwaveFlash.Play()
End Sub

End Class

[/HTML]

using this I can play a .swf video "D:\\movie.swf" - located in my hard drive...

but the issue is to play a .flv file i.e. a flash video file...

when i'm replacing the path with - "D\\flashvideo.flv" - the out put is getting blank - with a white backgruond.....

Can any one help me out??

Atanu

Thanks and Regards

I'm not strong with Flash problems in .NET but, are you sure that you can retrieve a movie from D:\ and use it in a website?
Try moving it to the web server (into wwwroot...) and see what happens?
(Then try using Server.MapPath to retrieve the video file)

-Frinny

Mar 11 '08 #4

prabhakarbtechit

Mar 11 '08 #5

Andinho

his goal is not to display it on a webpage but to play and interact with a flash application from within his own application.

Mar 11 '08 #6