jpg, flv, mp3 & swf are the only file formats that you can dynamically load into a Flash movie at runtime.
The reason for images as jpg is that all bitmap images are converted to jpg, because of reasonable compression ratios, when you publish your movie - therefore you need to have an image in jpg format already for the player if you're going to load at runtime.
One alternative, if you're running ColdFusion MX, is to use something server side to convert graphics to jpg, I've built a demo rich internet application that has ColdFusion MX use a Java application do the conversion on the fly: http://www.daemon.com.au/go/community/the-sandpit/image-browser if you have a look you might see that some of the files appear to be png but are actually being sent to the Flash app as jpg, generated by the server.
Basically it's the same story for sound files, they're all (wav,au,mov,mp3) converted into mp3 at publish time for the reasonable compression ratio.
FLV or Flash video is one of a few video formats converted into the FLV format - the player has no means of doing the conversion. Via Flash itself you can import avi,mpg,dv & mov and convert into FLV.
If you have Flash MX 2004 Professional you also have a special plugin for Quicktime that allows it to manually export an existing video file, see the list in the paragraph above, as a FLV.
HTH
Andrew
Clifton Steve wrote:
hey y'all,
i'm interested in using remoting to display a list of uploaded files in one pane, and when clicked on, the embedded file to open in an adjacent pane within the same flash movie.
i understand jpg's can be embedded in flash in this way, but i was wondering what other file formats can also be "embedded"... eg. avi's? gif's? png's? mpg's? mov's? wav's? ra? mp3?
when i say embedded, i mean can they be displayed "inline" without opening in real player or media player for example? if identified as a mpg or avi, can flash play them directly?
hope this makes sense. with very limited flash remoting experience i am flying blind here!
any help or pointers much appreciated.
regards, steve
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