Preloading FLVs is easy peasy.
var progressTimer:Timer = new Timer(10);
progressTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, updateProgress);
var nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
nc.connect(null);
var ns:NetStream = new NetStream(nc);
progressTimer.start();
// PLAY IT THEN PAUSE IT
ns.play(path);
ns.pause(true);
private function updateProgress($event:TimerEvent):void
{
dispatchEvent(new ProgressEvent(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, false,
false, ns.bytesLoaded, ns.bytesTotal));
}
private function onNetStreamStatus($event:NetStatusEvent):void
{
if ($event.info.code == "NetStream.Buffer.Flush")
{
progressTimer.stop();
dispatchEvent(new Event(Event.COMPLETE));
}
}
Steven Sacks
Flash Maestro
Los Angeles, CA
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Glen Pike wrote:
Hi,
I would suggest loading movie A then do 2 things when it has loaded:
play movie A
preload movie B
If Movie A is long enough you can load in all of Movie B before A
finishes and then transition as you like.
- by Movie I mean MovieClip / SWF not FLV. There maybe ways to
preload FLV's, but I am not familiar with this.
There are some good "sequential" preloaders out there:
Ralf Bokelberg has a preloader that looks okay. I have never used it
because I had written my own already, but it looks very solid.
http://www.helpqlodhelp.com/stuff/loaderclass/LoaderClass.doc.html
http://www.helpqlodhelp.com/scripts/com.qlod.app.loader.MovieClipLoader.as
There is also a useful article here linking to lots of preloaders /
examples:
http://www.actionscripthero.org/blog/2003/07/the-quest-for-preloading-powers.html
HTH
Glen
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