Inserting videos in flash

**deepakdeep** · 07-17-2008, 05:39 AM

can anyone pls help me in flash how we embeeded videos , I was really amazed after visiting this website http://www.logodesignguru.com

gr8 work ,,,, pls help me on this

**ropes27** · 07-17-2008, 08:52 AM

Now, the answer to your question really depends on what you are asking.
Do you want to know how to insert a flash object (such as a game) into an ordinary webpage?
If you do here is html:
<embed src="bowman2.swf"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="499"
width="640">
just rename bowman2 to the name of the file and adjust the size to what you want.
A more complex one is:
<embed src="http://gamesloth.us/hosted/heliattack3.swf"
quality="high"
pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="499"
width="640">
Which includes the plug in. Again change name and sort out size.
However if you are asking how to put a flash object into a flash webpage, i have no clue what to do!
This also depends on weather you r talking about a flash video.
My advice if you are using a flash webpage would be take a look at some flash website's page sources and pick out the code you need.
Hope this has helped!

**Medyman** · 07-17-2008, 05:55 PM

@Deepak....

There are two levels to your question. First is how to embed Flash video (FLV). The second is how to create an effect similar to that on the Logo Design Guru website.

So, let's break it down.

First, if you already have a .flv player and simply need to embed it, you have two options:
1. Create your own video player with custom controls and an interface. You might use this option if you have a very specialized design and need the flv player tightly integrated into it. Lee Brimelow of gotoAndLearn() has some amazing video tutorials on how to create a Flash-based .flv player. You can view them here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here (in that order). Lee's brother, Chris has a source code available on his blog on how to create a H.264 enabled video player in AS3 similar to Hulu.com.

2. The second option would be to use freely available Flash video players. One of the best featured and coded ones available is the JW Media Player. This supports playback of LV, MP4, MP3, AAC, JPG, PNG and GIF files. It also supports RTMP, HTTP and live streaming, various playlists and captioning formats, a wide range of settings and an extensive javascript API. There is also some skinning functionality that might be interesting to look into.

Now, if you want to achieve what what Logo Design Guru, does....it's a little more complicated. Certainly, they're using a custom video player. Next, they're using a video with a transparent background. Next, within the embed settings of the Flash, they're setting the wmode to transparent. This makes the flash embed with a transparent background. Lastly, through some CSS or some javascript, they have the flash positioned so it's always at the bottom of the screen.

The first step would be to create your own video player.

If you have any more questions, feel free to post back.

@ropes27...
In the future, use the [code] tags to post code. Otherwise, it's near illegible. Secondly, viewing the HTML source of a full flash page will reveal little to nothing about how anything is achieved. You would have decompile the embedded .swf and view it's ActionScript source code...which is getting into ethically murky territory.