Adobe Flash Media Cookbook

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• Demo of Adobe Flash Media Playback
  • greg•hamer 
  •   August 15, 2010
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  Problem

  You have a hosted video that you want to share on the web or mobile devices.

  Solution

  Use the free and super-easy-to-use video player called Flash Media Playback. The following how-to video walks you through the simple steps of getting the HTML embed code for the Adobe-hosted video player and pasting it into a finished web page so you can play your own hosted video file anywhere (that Flash Player is). (Video below is currently offline pending a bug fix by the Cookbooks engineering team. A resolution is expected shortly.)

• HTTP Streaming in OSMF
  • R. Blank 
  •   July 19, 2010
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  Problem

  I want to streaming my video file to my OSMF-based Flash video player, without using Flash Media Server (FMS), using Flash CS4 or CS5.

  Solution

  Tell OSMF (in ActionScript) to use an HTTPStreamingNetLoader instead of a regular NetLoader. All the rest of your code should work just fine.

• Sample RTMFP Multicast Player
  • Brad.Outlaw 
  •   December 23, 2010
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  Problem

  Developers wishing to learn how to build their own multicast player may need a simple illustrative example. The sample multicast player that ships with FMS 4.0 does not include source code.

  Solution

  The following source can be used to build the sample multicast player that ships with FMS 4.0.

• How do I disable right click menu options on a Flash website?
  • Cookbook Admin 
  •   August 31, 2010
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  Problem

  I need a snippet of code to add to my Flash website file to disable the right click options.

  Solution

  Most options can be disabled by adding a few lines of code. More detail below.

• Handling database in Flash? (@everythingFLA)
  • Ben Fhala 
  •   September 26, 2010
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  Problem

  Please explain the steps to handle database, TEX, XML, MySQL or any kind of database using Flash I'm trying to develop a website completely using Flash, all animation and other design is completed but I'm not able to do the database work, where I need to store my data and images in file and have to extract that and display in website. Please show me the steps.

  Solution

  Flash shouldn't be in direct charge of SQL commands if the site is not updated often or does not have a large amount of data to manage building a site out with static XML can be a great solution that doesn't involve any server side configurations. There are some options out there that enable gateway connections to a database but the whole idea in a world where we really want to protect our data - sounds scary, in a world where everyone is trying to hack your site. If your not a SQL master that knows the ins and outs of it and system security I wouldn't go in that path. Even if you need to do a few steps to protect your data on a database and if there isn't a lot of data/ or there isn't any need to protect it sometimes its easier to just create a static site not everything needs to go though a DB.