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

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
 
 

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

[kenobewan]

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

[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

[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

[prabhakarbtechit]

<div>
   <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="200" height="288">
      <param name="movie" value="Library/images/P3.swf">
      <param name="quality" value="low">
      <embed src="Library/images/P3.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="250" height="288"></embed>
   </object>
</div>

[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.