# Progressive Video Streaming in Flash 8

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/progressive-video-streaming-in-flash-8/205665
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [October 31, 2006, 7:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/progressive-video-streaming-in-flash-8/205665 "2006-10-31T19:44:08Z")
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### Author: ![duder78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@duder78](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/duder78)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2006, 7:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/progressive-video-streaming-in-flash-8/205665/1 "2006-10-31T19:44:08Z")

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Alright, i’m confused as to why this little snippet isn’t working. First off, i’ve been reading 'Macromedia Flash Advanced for Windows & Macintosh" by Russell Chun w/ H. Paul Robertson. Good book, easy to follow, clear and concise.

I successfully embedded a small video and looped it. Yet when I tried to progressively download an .flv using the code examples in the book it didn’t work. I beat my head over it for a bit and then simply published the example i was trying to emulate right from the CD-ROM which came with the book. Still didn’t work. Here is a link to a .ZIP archive with all relevant files :

[www.elgrantos.com/archives/progressiveDownload.zip](http://www.elgrantos.com/archives/progressiveDownload.zip)

Residing on the web server in the same directory are the .swf, .html, and .flv. When the button is pressed within the flash movie, nothing happens. I can’t say why that is seeing as I haven’t changed any source files.

Help! Please! I can’t embed some of the larger videos I have because server access times would skyrocket. Any idea why this isn’t working?

Thank you for any insight in advance :rambo: