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| Clarke Bishop 2005-04-07, 5:51 pm |
| I am dynamically loading FLV video files from a DVD. The problem is that I
can't get this to play properly on a Mac.
Macromedia has a Tech Note that says:
"For the FLV file to play back from a non-system drive on a Macintosh, refer
to it with an absolute path using a colon-based notation ( as opposed to
slash-based notation."
This mentions an absolute path. But, I'd still like to make a relative path
work, if possible.
My question is: What is the proper form for a relative path on a Mac?
For a PC, "video/dir1/file.flv" works where video is a folder on the root of
the DVD.
What is the equivalent using :-syntax for a Mac? I tried
"video:dir1:file.flv" and ":video:dir1:file.flv", but neither worked.
Thanks Much!
Clarke
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| Thomas W.J.C.McCrystal 2005-04-07, 5:51 pm |
| >I tried
>"video:dir1:file.flv" and ":video:dir1:file.flv", but neither worked.
If "video" is at the root of the DVD, try "DVD_Name:video:dir1:file.flv".
It's an absolute path, but on the mac, if you know the name of a volume,
you can always generate the absolute path. Use it and don't worry about
it.
Much easier than a PC, where the absolute path is
someVariableLetter:directory/directory2/file, or somesuch. In the olden
days of CD-ROM development, getting that e: or f: or n: was always a
tricky and unreliable. (Some machines would lock up if you accessed an
undefined volume letter.)
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| Bill Sanders 2005-04-07, 5:51 pm |
| Clarke,
You're playing it back as a stream from a FCS server? The path that
exists would be:
video/streams/dir1/file
I believe. However, the "streams" is assumed by the "rtmp:/video/dir1"
connection.
I'm probably missing something -- is this a CS or SS playback?
Bill
On Mar 1, 2005, at 9:02 PM, Clarke Bishop wrote:
> I am dynamically loading FLV video files from a DVD. The problem is
> that I
> can't get this to play properly on a Mac.
>
> Macromedia has a Tech Note that says:
>
> "For the FLV file to play back from a non-system drive on a Macintosh,
> refer
> to it with an absolute path using a colon-based notation ( as
> opposed to
> slash-based notation."
>
> This mentions an absolute path. But, I'd still like to make a relative
> path
> work, if possible.
>
> My question is: What is the proper form for a relative path on a Mac?
>
> For a PC, "video/dir1/file.flv" works where video is a folder on the
> root of
> the DVD.
>
> What is the equivalent using :-syntax for a Mac? I tried
> "video:dir1:file.flv" and ":video:dir1:file.flv", but neither worked.
>
> Thanks Much!
>
> Clarke
>
>
>
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