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Is this still not possible?!

All I want to do is create a movie in flash that plays from beginning to end with media player-like controls without having to build the blinking media player. Easiest thing (I thought) would be to export as an f4v and use the FLVMediaPlayer component to play it, but this doesn't seem possible.

I know you've not been able to do this in the past (because I've tried it before, there's an old thread kicking around her about it), but I thought we'd be able to do this in 2010.

What's the best way to do this? I really really don't feel like converting my old AS2 media player to AS3. There must be an easier way.

flv?

You can do FLA -> MOV -> FLV.

...or maybe I don't know what you're asking.

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Wont flash 10 will play an external mov in the media player component?

Originally posted by: persist
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Wont flash 10 will play an external mov in the media player component?

It does?! Cool. I will try that. I (stupidly, upon reflection) assumed the flash media player would only play f4vs and flvs. Thanks guys.

Hmmm, doesn't seem to be working for me... I just tried it, it loads an f4v perfectly fine, but when I try to load a .mov in the exact same directory, it comes up blank.

btw -- I am using the FLVPlayback component. I don't see a "Media Player" component in the list, does it exist in CS4?

You have to make sure the Mov is h.264 encoded there is options on final cuts compressor or you might be able to do it with quick time. I can send you the haXe code for this basic player... justinfront.net/haxe/salsaVideos/ its playing an external MOV with h.264 in.

oh yes sorry, I push out so many mov files, it's automatic for me; I don't think much about the codec since its become standard.

Thanks for the clarification JLM.

Have you tried changing the filename extension to ".flv?" Saved my life once.

How do you make sure a movie you are exporting to .mov from flash is encoded with h.264?