FLASH: QuickTime movie errors

[John Szalay]

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,



John Szalay

Information Systems & Technology Administrator

Precision Resource Canada Ltd.

4 Cherry Blossom Rd.

Cambridge Ont.

(519) 653-7777




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