FLVPlayback skins with Captionate captioning support
Providing captions in Flash just got easier. Adobe is making skins for the FLVPlayback component available for use. The skins were crated by Michael Jordan and are being provided by Adobe for developers to use.
To use these skins:
- Download the caption skin MXP file
- Run the MXP file to install the extension
- once installed, you simply select a skin from the 'Select Skin' dialog that is displayed when changing the FLVPlayback skin in Flash 8, as shown in the image below.
- the FLV file that you display in your movie must have caption data to display. These skins are designed to work with FLV files that have captioned added by Captionate.
Please let us know how these skins work for you - we'd love to point to examples!
Update: We've uploaded a new version of the skins with the following issues addressed:
- The updated skins now support the FLVPlayback Custom UI Controls, with a CaptionsButton symbol to the FLVPlayback Custom UI.fla library.
- bug fixed where the skins cause the FLVPlayback component to throw an “Invalid contentPath” error when the FLVPlayback component instance appeared after the first frame of the swf and the contentPath url was set in the components panel.
Comments
Can't get these skin. IE and Safari both just give me a page with strange text characters. Any other link? Thanks
Posted by: Tom | November 5, 2006 10:39 AM
Thank you vary much it a great extension.
But more wants more, I would realy like to be able to have a previus/next caption buttons for navigation (read again).
:O) Frank
Posted by: Frank | November 5, 2006 01:09 PM
Great stuff, but we really really need a simple to use duration flag for captions and events so people can fwd and rwd clips and have the right data show up.
In the meantime I'd really like to know how to send external XML caption and event data to the caption area of this skin - so I can manually deal with fwd and rwd.
Thanks
Posted by: Robin | December 10, 2006 05:25 PM
Great CC applications. Howver has anyone been able to cc encode a live FLV stream and embedd the CC data within the stream?
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March 23, 2007 09:14 AM
Does anyone know how to convert FLV files to MPEG?
Posted by: Poker | May 12, 2007 10:01 AM
i think i saw those skins somewhere. i can remmber someone talking about micahael jordan creating them
Posted by: Air Jordan | September 26, 2007 10:18 PM
When using this component the flv file path is hard coded into the swf. This means you can't have the path dynamically filled in by the html of the page that is displaying the flash.... or can you?
When you add flash video in Dreamweaver to a page using one of the standard components it uses a variable in the html called 'streamName' which allows you to change what video is being displayed. I was hoping for something similar.
Posted by: neil | November 12, 2007 07:10 AM
I am using flvplayback component to show my videos. When i access through a web page on local computer or webserver , i cannot see the skin and controls to show up. It shows only the video. it shows everything when i view from flash. Wht i am doing wrong? please help me..
Posted by: Adonweb | February 26, 2008 04:36 AM
Adonweb,
Are you uploading the skin swf file along with the main swf and flv file when you move the files to your web server? You'll need to if not...
Posted by: Andrew Kirkpatrick | February 26, 2008 10:44 AM
In the meantime I'd really like to know how to send external XML caption and event data to the caption area of this skin - so I can manually deal with fwd and rwd.
Thanks
Posted by: Nike Dunks | March 20, 2008 06:18 AM
Nike,
These skins do allow you to reference an external DFXP caption data file. Is that what you are looking for? If so, you'll find information in the Flash help system on this after the extension is installed.
Posted by: Andrew Kirkpatrick | March 20, 2008 10:51 AM
Can I use these skins in Flash CS3?
Posted by: Jason | March 25, 2008 10:43 AM
Thx, great work.
Posted by: Babe | April 1, 2008 09:50 PM