On Sep 17, 2010, at 8:26 AM, Mr worm wrote:
On 17 Sep 2010, 11:57 am, waltd wrote:
1- Does the flash files link to URL address have to be configured in
flash itself in order to open and play from a url e.g www.mydomain.com
Could you say a little more about this part? Are you trying to open a
SWF file which then calls an FLV file from a different server?
ScriptyLightbox can only handle SWF files by itself, but those SWF
files can of course be coded to include any other content they
require.
Thanks Walt for your helpful response.
When you say ScriptyLightbox can only handle SWF files by itself,
what exactly do you mean?
Well, no browser can play FLV files “bare”, that is, without a SWF
wrapper. Similarly, SL cannot accept a link to an FLV file and
magically create a SWF wrapper for it.
I have several flash movie files that I want to be able to play,
preferably in SL but not essential as long as they play. How do I go
about this, I have all the files and flash CS5.
ATM all my files will reside on my server like this:
www.mydomain/movies/flash/moviename.flv
How do I set the link up? More importantly so it plays in SL.
I am not sure how you would do this. Lightwindow 2 (the underlying
effect which ScriptyLightbox wraps) was written before FLV became
popular, and I’m not sure how it would work. The issue is that you
need to set a parameter for the Flash plug-in, telling it where to
find the FLV. But the only access you have to the SWF is through a
URL. You could try adding the attribute through the URL, so if your
SWF needs a parameter called ‘movie’, you could extend the link to the
SWF file to include those parameters, as in href="Resources/ someWrapper.swf?movie=someMovie.flv".
Can the same be said for .wmv files Walt. Can these be played
through SL if the media dimensions are set inline with all videos on
the page? Or will these only open in a new WMP window?
That depends on your browser. If you have a plug-in (QuickTime plus
the requisite codecs, or IE with some narsty ActiveX component) that
understands that format), then it will play directly in the browser.
Otherwise, it will only play in a “helper” application.
Currently I only see the controls under the player and NO movie in
SL on my Mac/Safari. However on PC it plays in new WMP window.
Worm
Using plug-ins for a wide range of browsers and platforms is something
of a dark art. You have to know what types of browsers are visiting,
and you have to pick a conservative set of media formats to support
those browsers’ likely plug-ins.
QuickTime has a feature where you create a single reference movie,
which is nothing but a text file with a QuickTime file-type. Inside
that file is a list, in order of preference, of all the different
formats and sizes of versions of the original movie. (Downside – you
have to create all of those various versions – but most compression
applications will build the whole bundle for you automatically.)
The plug-in on the browser reads this file, figures out what the best
option is for it, based on connection speed, processor speed, etc.,
and silently loads just that one version. I prefer QuickTime to the
various WM* implementations for this feature alone. It’s quite
magical, it just works, and it doesn’t expose the options to the end
user, so they don’t get confused.
Anyone who tells you that Windows users don’t have QuickTime hasn’t
looked lately at the number of iPods sold around the world. Every
single one of them is a Trojan horse, loading iTunes, which means
installing QuickTime if it’s a Windows computer.
Walter
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