# Video in flash

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/video-in-flash/314958
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [October 13, 2010, 12:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/video-in-flash/314958 "2010-10-13T12:27:11Z")
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### Author: ![cotta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/91b2a8/32.png) [@cotta](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/cotta)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2010, 12:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/video-in-flash/314958/1 "2010-10-13T12:27:11Z")

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Hi there

I am doing a portfolio website with a lot of artwork, and I want to include a showreel video. I am working with AS3 in CS5.

The way I set it up, is that I have my main swf, and I load in each gallery or video as an external swf using this kind of code:

```auto

stop();

var my_loader:Loader = new Loader();

conceptButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, goConcept);
function goConcept(event:Event):void {
	gotoAndStop("concept");
	my_loader.load(new URLRequest("concept art.swf"));
	addChild(my_loader);
}

```

If I navigate away from the galleries, to my contact info for instance, I use this bit of code:

```auto
contactButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, goContact);
function goContact(event:Event):void {
	if(currentFrame > 20){
	removeChild (my_loader);
	my_loader=null;
	gotoAndStop(1);
	}
	gotoAndStop("contact");	
} 

```

This works fine for the image galleries, but I can’t get it to work right for my video swf.

What I have done is, make a seperate swf, where I have imported my video clip. The clip itself is kept in the same folder as the swf, so I think I can use a relative path, and basically just have it’s name alone in the source field.

Then I upload the swf, to my website, along with the skin and the video. It work locally, but I can’t get it to work on the web. Is it a simply a question of getting the path right?

The second part of my question is:  
Like I said, I can get it to work locally, but once I navigate away from the videoclip, I can still hear it playing in the background. If I then navigate back to it, another instance of the video will load, and I get can hear the old video playing in the background, while the new one is playing on top. How do I fix this?

Last but not least, I can’t figure out how to deploy my video as progressive download. How or where do I specify this?

I shold tell you, that I really don’t know my way around AS3. I used to be pretty good with AS2, but all I do now, is copy paste code snippets from tutorials and such.

You can see my website (in it’s incomplete stage) here. [www.voncotta.com](http://www.voncotta.com)

Cheers