Re: FLASH: playing external media

[Till Steinmetz]

Hi,


>Here's some wishful thinking: is there a way to have Flash play external

>mp3 files (or wav, or whatever...)? Is there also a way to have Flash

>display external .jpg files? I know how to accomplish this by saving

>everything as .swf's and using load movie, but it's a lot of files and we'd

>like to save that step if possible. Thanks.


I guess you know that you can do all this with macromedia generator if can 

spare the $ needed. But of course there are cheaper solutions:


It is quite easy to dynamically generate *.swf files from jpg's using swift 

generator. this could be even done on-the-fly as it does not require much 

cpu time. you just need some server side scripting to do this.


I think the streaming mp3 thing is more difficult. perhaps some day someone 

will modify the icecast (www.icecast.org) server in a way that it can 

output streaming swf files..


Bye,

till






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