[Papervision3D] Playing with video

[Paul Spitzer]

Hi Oscar,

I experienced the same problem. There are actually limitations in the 
Flash Player when capturing bitmapData of FLVs. Check out the tech note 
http://tinyurl.com/ywrtvg. Note the part about Flash 9, "In Flash Player 
9, this feature is obsolete, and streaming video cannot be captured". 
Also, http://tinyurl.com/38rsoe has some more info. Chris Chen offers a 
solution, http://tinyurl.com/27qgsp. Unfortunately I wasn't able to get 
this to work. What I did was create a Flash 8 SWF and used it as a 
proxy. It took the path to the FLV as a query string param and was 
responsible for loading the video. I load up the proxy in AS3 / FP9 and 
capture away.

Hope this helps,

Paul




Oscar Trelles wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I was working on this last night:
>
> http://www.oscartrelles.com/projects/papervision3d/videoCube/
>
> and showed it to my friends and coworkers during the day, and some times the 
> video will just get stuck. This behavior appears to be erratic, as it 
> happens even when the video is fully loaded.
>
> I was hoping you could shed some light on the issue.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Oscar
>
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> Oscar Trelles
> www.oscartrelles.com
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