[Flashcoders] Flash 8 video encoder causing spontaneous reboot! Help!
I'm in the process of encoding a bunch of :30 sec TV commercials for my portfolio. I'm encoding them with the FL8 Video Encoder. All was well, until my laptop crashed mid-encode. Now every time I attempt to encode, about halfway through the video, the computer spontanously acts as if I've press the power button, and shuts itself off. Note - it doesnt' crash - it does an orderly (unstoppable) shutdown. The same thing happens if I try to encode a single video using Flash 8 itself. Ditto for Sorenson Squeeze 4.3. As long as I'm using on2 VP6, I'm boned. (Squeeze works, just fine, if I use the Sorenson codec, but the file size suffers - dramatically - and I'd much rather use the on2 VP6 codec.) I've deduced from this, that the VP6 encoder must be pooched, but I have no idea where to find the file that might be corrupted. If I could find the offending file(s), I might be able to pull copies from another computer/installation, and overwrite them. On the other hand, it might be better to simply re-install Flash, however I don't want to do it, then get some message about how I've exceeded the number of installations and I can just bloody well go buy a new copy of Flash 8. That would be bad. Any ideas as to what might be wrong...and what I can do to fix this problem? Thanks! Brad Kozak -- Brad Kozak | Novel Idea, LLP www.Novel Idea | 806.584.5689 ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
[Flashcoders] looking for some .NET to Flash tools
I'm working on a project that involves a .NET backend database. So far, we've successfully used XPath/XML to interface with the DB, but the database guy wants to eliminate the XML output. He's not willing to invest in ColdFusion, so I was wondering if anybody knows of a component that might make it easy (read: brain-dead simple) to interface with a .NET database. Thanks! -- Brad Kozak | Novel Idea, LLP www.Novel Idea | 806.584.5689 ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
[Flashcoders] FLV cuepoints scrubbing
I'm putting together some video tutorials in Flash 8, using FLVs with transparency. I'm using cue points to trigger events – specifically turning on and off illustrations, pictures, and movie clips behind the video. My client wants viewers to be able to scrub back to any point they like. This presents a problem though, as follows: let's say I trigger an MC to be visible at 1:30 and invisible at 2:00 in the playback. The visitor watches until 2:15, then stops, and scrubs back to, say 1:45. If I simply trigger the visible state on and off at the cue points, the visitor won't see the background when they scrub back to 1:45. I need to know how I can fix this. I'm assuming that there's a way to do this with listeners, but I'm not sure how to go about it. Any help would be greatly appreciated! -- Brad Kozak | Novel Idea, LLP www.Novel Idea | 806.584.5689 ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
