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Importing Mpeg, .avi , and .mov

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JBell99

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May 28, 2001
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I am the webmaster of a new Final Fantasy site....i have some very exclusive Final Fantasy X videos that i want to put on my site, only problem is..they are huge!!! I want to import these into flash to give them a small bandwidth...so how do i do that? Whenever i try to do that, it just imports the very first frame of any movie I import, i need to have every frame and all the sounds there..how do I do that? I mainly need help with MPEG and Avi, becuzse almost all of my videos are in that format.
 
Simple and quick answer... You simply can't import mpgs and avis in Flash as such.
See thread250-89602 for more info on workarounds!
But even if you use Flix, you're still encoding for streaming as you would with RealPlayer or Windows MediaPlayer, and unless the user has a cable connection, picture quality (not talking about picture size, you would have to use!) is very poor.

You can allways try Davedesign's technique (similar to the Flashkit link in that thread above), #45 AVI WITH CONTROLS in faq250-756, but again this won't be cutting down on size!
When importing each frame and converting them to bitmaps on only a 320*240 30 seconds avi or mpeg, the final Flash movie will be huge in KBs, should I say MBs.

IMHO, you might be better off streaming With RealPlayer, QT, or the WM Player.

;-)
 
man..that ruins my day.......i guess i'll just do streaming Quicktime, I thought i could just make my FMVs really low bandwidth with Flash and make everyone happy.....guess not :( oh well, it'll be ok.
 
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