So the .flv is embedded into the main timeline?

What do you mean by "problems with the video sticking on the later questions"?

Are you testing locally and having these problems? or are you testing from a Web server?

Are you having any sync problems? wrong vid for the question, etc?

Adninjastrator

I think that I am understanding most of what you are trying to do.

So question 1 plays and then a correct or incorrect answer video plays... and so forth and so on???

Are you using the FLVPlayback component for all the videos?

and there are 75 vids? Are there cuepoints in each vid? and that cue point moves to another point on the main timeline and in that frame there is a new FLVPlayback component playing the next question?

Does every video have to download and play in total?

So all of question 1 vid and all of answer 1 vid has to download and play? or can you answer before the end of question 1 and do you have to watch all of answer 1 before moving to answer 2?

If you go thru the quiz very slowly, giving all videos plenty of time to download, do you still have delay problems with later questions?

Are there any other vids loading if you are on Question 10, for example? are 8 & 9 still loading?

I am not mentioning FLVPlayback as a recommendation, rather as a clarification.

There are only 3 ways to display Flash video that I am aware of.

1. embed into timeline

2. use the FLVPLayback

3. use NetStream

I'm still not sure which method you are using. The reason this is important to understand is that the method of controlling the video is different for each.

If the user does not have to wait until the question plays out fully

You can answer the question midway through each question,

that means that the answer video could start playing while the previous question video is also loading.

Over a period of time, say by question 13 or 14, the lag could be because all those question video have to finish downloading... as well as all the answer videos.

Unless you explicitely stop the download process, each video that is called and starts to download, will continue to download until completion. Pausing or stopping the video may not be stopping the download.

In the cue points and button actions, is there an explicit command to stop the download, not just the "pause" the video?

Here is an example of what I am talking about:

http://www.mrfilmbiz.com/

Open the page and you'll see a video loading status bar. Above the word "Hollywood" you'll see a "Skip Intro" button. Click the button before the intro loads fully and you'll see that the download is stopped. Now click the "Play Intro" button and you'll see the video start downloading again.

Pausing the video stops the video from playing yet does NOT stop the downloading.

This example illustrates that button actions can and should include explicite instructions to FIRST stop the downloading and then do whatever other button action you want.

So your answer buttons should include as the first line of instruction.... stop the video downloading.

Here is the actionscript for the "Skip Intro" button.... the video is being played via the NetStream method I mentioned earlier

skip_btn.onRelease = function() {

ns.close();

gotoAndStop("end");

}

The important part is that ns.close(); is used as the very first line of button action. This closes the NetStream, stopping the download of the rest of the file.

I think your lag is due to having so many videos that must download completely. By the time you get to questions 15... there are multiple earlier videos that have not yet finished downloading... hence there is just not enough bandwidth available to accomplish that PLUS download a new question.

Of course none of this is has to do with "pre-loading". Even if you do preload, there is still the problem of having to download all 75 vids completely.... which may be beyond the bandwidth/time constraints of some users.

So I still recommend adding the stop download line to the buttons.

And here is a loader you may want to look into:

http://www.greensock.com/loadermax/

Best wishes,

Adninjastrator

The code to stop loading the video needs to go on the answer button (as I illustrated above).... so you answer "A" or "B".... which ever answer you choose it first stops the downloading of the current video BEFORE it even plays the answer video.

You will find that using NetStream is a much more versatile and powerful means of interacting with video than the FLVPlayback (which I think you are using now).

There are some great AS2 NetStream video tutorials here:

http://www.gotoandlearn.com/

Scroll to the very bottom of the page. Thsoe video tutorials will show you how to create your own custom NetStream vid player.

Best wishes,

Adninjastrator

You are most welcome!

Glad you got it working.

If you found any of my posts as answering or helpful, please mark them so others looking for help will also know where to look.

Best wishes,

Adninjastrator

Use "if" statements, as in

ns.onCuePoint = function(evt:Object){
    trace(evt.name);
    trace(evt.time);
    if(evt.name == "play_vid1") {
        trace("YO!Loading wide_holder!");
        wide_holder.loadMovie("rm/images/black_bear.swf");
    }

    if(evt.name == "play_vid2") {
  trace("YO!Loading standard_holder!");
        standard_holder.loadMovie("rm/images/sqis.swf");
    }
};

if cue 1 do this

if cue 2 do this, etc.

Best wishes,

Adninjastrator

Use multiple "if" statements in the same onCuePoint function... just one function, multiple choices for that function

ns.onCuePoint = function(evt:Object){

    trace(evt.name);

    trace(evt.time);

    if(evt.name == "c1") {

        trace("YO !Jump to 25!");

        gotoAndPlay(25);

    }

if(evt.name == "c2") {

        trace("YO !Jump to 38!");

        gotoAndStop(38);

    }

     MORE IF STATEMENTS CAN GO HERE....

};

If the cue is c1, do this, if c2 do this other thing, etc. down a list of if statements

You can have as many if's as needed and you could also add an "else" statement (if the cue doesn't match any of the if statements) at the end, before the final closing bracket if you wanted.