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1. Ned Murphy,

May 19, 2011 5:00 PM in reply to EverestJ

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If it is a basic flv video clip, one option is to just import/embed it into an empty movieclip's timeline and place that movieclip on a layer below any others. That way, it can play continuously regardless of what the rest of the file's content is doing.

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2. EverestJ,

May 20, 2011 5:13 AM in reply to Ned Murphy

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Thanks so much! That was so much easier than I thought it would be. Thanks again!

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3. Ned Murphy,

May 20, 2011 8:21 AM in reply to EverestJ

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You're welcome

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4. MarKus Lee,

May 20, 2011 12:52 PM in reply to Ned Murphy

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I guess I am missing something because this did not work for me.

I dropped the flv into a new layer and it pretty much just acted like I was importing a video from scratch. It creates a FVLplayback embeded component and plays fine, but will not loop.

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5. EverestJ,

Dec 17, 2011 8:45 AM in reply to MarKus Lee

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I used embedded video. I could not get it to loop with an external video

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6. mwolda333,

Apr 15, 2012 9:08 AM in reply to Ned Murphy

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HI, I'm trying the same thing... imported an FLV into a movie clip and placed the movie clip in a bottom layer of the main scene.

I had imported it before as "load as external video with playback component" which played fine, but it didn't loop.

Now I'm trying the "Embed FLV and play in timeline" method into the movie clip and I stuck the movie in a layer in the main timeline.

The problem is that it's not playing at all now. I've added the 700 frames to the length of the video in the main timeline, and that's not helping. I've tried adding a gotoAndPlay(1); on the last frame. Not helping.

Any thoughts?

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7. adninjastrator,

Apr 15, 2012 9:29 AM in reply to mwolda333

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Number of ways to do this.

If you embed the video directly into the main timeline.... there is no need to do anything. The default for Flash is to play the last frame and then loop to the first frame.

Another choice is to use NetStream to play the video.... much more powerful and versatile than the FLVPlayback component.

Then to loop, it's simple:

ns.onStatus = function(info) {
if(info.code == "NetStream.Play.Stop") {
trace("Video complete")
    ns.seek(0);
    ns.play();
   }
}

Good NetStream video tutorial here:

www.gotoandlearn.com

Very bottom of page.

Best wishes,

Adninjastrator

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