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From: darwinfisch on 17 Jun 2008 17:30
I have an FLV playing through an embedded SWF in my director 10.1 movie.
Nothing fancy, just using the FLV playback component in flash 8 and importing
that into director. This plays fine on a mac, and even on a PC when viewing the
movie within director, but when I publish the audio disappears. I've been
trying different combinations of swf settings in director (dts, static, linked
media, etc), but to no avail. Does anyone have any ideas? I'm at the end of my
rope here...

Thanks in advance.

From: pvansch on 18 Jun 2008 22:33
Hey darwinfish, have you downloaded the MX 2004 update? It updates the
shockwave player and flash asset xtra to 10.1.1. The Flash Asset Xtra improves
flash 8 playback.
Also what encoding did you use for your FLV? I have done this before and found
the Truemotion encoder better than the Sorenson.

And finally, how are you importing the FLV into your SWF? I never add to the
timeline especially if your video is large. Use a Video Component and stream
the FLV once your swf is loaded. For example you could add the following
actionscript into the first frame of your swf assuming you have a video
component labelled 'VideoObj' and a external movie 'myMovie.flv'

var netConn:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
netConn.connect(null);
var netStream:NetStream = new NetStream(netConn);
var videoStatus

VideoObj.attachVideo(netStream);
netStream.setBufferTime(1);
netStream.play("myMovie.flv");

Hope this helps.


From: darwinfisch on 19 Jun 2008 10:43
I ran the original update to allow Flash 8 playback in MX 04. This has been
fine up until now. Is there another update available?

I went with the playback component for ease of not having to create and
program my player controls, but just for grins and giggles I went in and added
the video using the NetConnection and NetStream classes. The result was the
same: audio in the authoring environment, none in the projector.

Right now I'm just chalking this up to 'one of those things', and working
around it. This means I've split the program into two versions; one which plays
a WMV and another which plays a MOV. Ugly, but it works.

From: Sean Wilson on 19 Jun 2008 16:28
Did you include the swadcmpr xtra?
From: darwinfisch on 20 Jun 2008 09:39
The swadcmpr xtra was included, but your mention of it made me want to try
adding the swastrm xtra as well. That didn't work either. I'm wondering if it
is something to do with an xtra file, though - that would explain why this
plays correctly on a mac but not a PC, if they're using platform-specific
versions of the xtras...

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