Problem with Video Playback

programming flash
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Hey all,

Quick question… I am placing an “PLAY” arrow on my movie so that the user has to click it before the movie plays, similar to what YouTube might do.

On the root frame I have this code:


var myConnection = new NetConnection();
myConnection.connect(null);
var myStream = new NetStream(myConnection);
_root.mcVideo.attachVideo(_root.myStream);

Very basic and simple… nothing fancy just want to make it work.

Now, I placed an on(release) command within the Arrow that is placed ontop of the playback.

It holds:


on(release){
    this._alpha=0;
    trace(_root.movie);
    _root.myStream.play(_root.movie);
}

Now when I trace the _root.movie (which was previously loaded) it displays “j.flv” which is the test movie I have in there. The myStream DOES NOT PLAY though.

Now it gets interesting when I remove _root.movie and replace it with just
_root.myStream.play(“j.flv”);

It then plays. It seems like it will not take the movie variable. Which is a bit odd, maybe I have a wrong variable type not sure…

ANY ADVICE is great apprecaited!! :slight_smile: