Re: FLASH: QuickTime movie errors

[Eric Blanpied]

The standard references in an unflattened movie are File refs (as opposed to

URL's), and are not really designed for this. QuickTime does have a couple

of mechanisms for doing what you want, but the Flash tool can't create

movies that way.


It appears that you are setting into territory best handled by a dedicated

QuickTime tool. I would export the .swf without the QuickTime tracks and use

LiveStage Pro to assemble it with a "Movie Track", which would reference the

QuickTime movie on your server. This could be relative or absolute, and

would use a standard URL. You could also point to the movie on a streaming

server, which can handle many more users and deal with network variability.


I know it's never great to get an answer that says "buy another tool", so

sorry. However, if you're interested in doing a lot of interactive things

with QuickTime and Flash, LiveStagePro will really open doors.

http://www.totallyhip.com.




John Szalay wrote:


> Any help with this one would be great,

> 

> Flash 5 allows Quick Time 4 movies to be included within it. To view the

> QuickTime movies you must compile the Flash file as a QuickTime Movie.

> One of the options when compiling is to flatten the movie, which means all

> the movies referenced will be included in the new compiled movie. When this

> is left unchecked, the movie references the source movie files. When playing

> back on my development machine this works fine. When I request the compiled,

> unflattened file from the server, it generates an error in the plug-in which

> I believe is due to the fact, that the references are absolute and not

> relative. I believe this because, when I map directly to the root drive of

> the server, it does not generate the error. Also I compiled the file, and

> flattened the movie so that all the referenced movies were compiled

> together, and that compiled file played back fine when I requested it.

> 

> The downside to the compiled file is that it is enormous, and the playback

> of this file is slow and nearly impossible over multiple machines across the

> network. Yet with direct mapping to the root of the server on multiple

> machines and using the unflattened file, playback is smooth, clear and great

> on upwards of 6 machines at the same time on the network.

> 

> Is there something I might be missing here? Is there a way for me to use the

> unflattened file, and supporting movies instead of a huge compiled flattened

> movie, when delivering from a server?

> 

> I am running Windows NT 4.0 , Flash 5, QuickTime 4, on PC.

> 

> Thanks in Advance,

> 




-- 

Eric Blanpied

QuickTime

Apple Computer, Inc.



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