MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-USING FLASH Use Manual page 307

To specify the name and location of the FLV:
1. With the component selected, open the Property inspector (Window > Properties) and
select the Parameters tab in the Property inspector, or open the Component inspector
(Window > Component Inspector).
2. Enter values for parameters, or use the default settings as appropriate. For the
parameter, do the following:
a. Double-click the Value cell for the
Path dialog box.
b. Enter the URL or local path to either the FLV file or the XML file (for Flash
Communication Server or FVSS) that describes how to play the FLV.
If you do not know the location of the FLV or XML file, click the folder icon to
activate a File browser dialog box that lets you navigate to the correct location. When
browsing for an FLV file, if it is at or below the location of the target SWF file, Flash
automatically makes the path relative to that location so that it is ready for serving
from a web server. Otherwise, it is an absolute Windows or Macintosh file path.
If you specify an HTTP URL, the FLV is a progressive download FLV. If you specify a
URL that is a Real-Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) URL, the FLV streams from a
Flash Communication Server (FCS). A URL to an XML file could also be a streaming
FLV from FCS or from a Flash Video Streaming Service (FVSS).
When you click OK on the Content Path dialog box, Flash updates the value of
the
cuePoints
parameter so that the
content path. As a result, you will lose any disabled cue points, although not
ActionScript cue points. For this reason, you might want to disable non-
ActionScript cue points through ActionScript, rather than through the Cue Points
dialog box.
You can also specify the location of an XML file that describes how to play multiple
FLV streams for multiple bandwidths. The XML file uses the Synchronized
Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) to describe the FLVs. For a description of
the XML SMIL file, see "Using a SMIL file" in the Components Language Reference.
contentPath
parameter, too, because you might have changed the
parameter no longer applies to the current
cuePoints
Using the FLVPlayback component (Flash Professional only)
parameter to activate the Content
contentPath
contentPath
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