flash movie

[debrag]

I have been trying to produce a flash movie for my site.

I imported a flv clip to flash and tried two ways -

(1) I have imported a flv movie into 1 layer in a scene and added a play & stop button to another layer in the same scene.

I clicked the movie and went to properties and named the instance as 'promo' with instance of FLVplayback. I then added the following to the buttons -

on (release) {
promo.play();
}

(or stop for the stop button)

promo became a different colour to the rest of the test meaning it isn't right. I tried FLVplayback instead of promo and no colour change.

In preview the clip was showing but the buttons weren't working.

(2) Removed buttons and added a skin to the clip which worked fine in preview.

uploaded .fla .swf and .html files to site went to .html but only the clip was showing, no skin no buttons.
uploaded the skin, nothing shows on page

Why doesn't it seem to work?

 

[grayrabbit]

Flash is tricky,, i know where to find a good flash video player that can solve that,, i gotta research it,, ill be back witht he answer

 

[Artoonie]

if it's all in the same scene, cant you just use play(); ?

if you only want one layer to play, i dont know how, or if its even possible. try double clicking the movie clip and editing the actionscript in there perhaps, starting with stop(); then play();ing after some action.