# Short and easy question about FLV

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/short-and-easy-question-about-flv/183104>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [March 23, 2006, 9:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/short-and-easy-question-about-flv/183104 "2006-03-23T21:09:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![radd](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/radd/32/1767_2.png) [@radd](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/radd)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2006, 9:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/short-and-easy-question-about-flv/183104/1 "2006-03-23T21:09:51Z")

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hi,

i need a simple thing done pretty fast. it’s about FLV…  
how can my player know if the URL of the video realy exists?

i have an XML playlist and if a FLV item from that list was deleted from the host, then the player should automaticly skip to the next item in the playlist.

hope it’s clear. thanks a lot

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**Author:** ![jasarius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecccb3/32.png) [@jasarius](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jasarius)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 11:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/short-and-easy-question-about-flv/183104/2 "2006-03-24T23:43:26Z")

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I don’t think that’s possible. Maybe if you have your XML generated dynamically with PHP which updates the XML with data from a database…I suppose that would work. Of couse then you would also have to have so type of ‘no-cache’ or something in place to ensure that the movie clip calls for the XML everytime the viewer uses that movie, otherwise it will just use the XML that’s in the browsers cache and that might not be up to date.

I hope that makes sense and I’m sure there is an easier way of doing too.

By the way…I’m just talking off the top of my head…I’ve never done something like that and don’t really know how I’m just feeling chatty today. 🙂

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**Author:** ![v2ikematu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/3d9bf3/32.png) [@v2ikematu](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/v2ikematu)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 12:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/short-and-easy-question-about-flv/183104/3 "2006-03-25T00:13:53Z")

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onLoadError event handler could do the job 🙂