external MC loading Help please

[karatekid2point0]

Flash gurus is this possible????? i'm trying to load various players from external sites into one completely controlable flash box. Basicly i need to have this loaded into the MC i have created:

<embed src="http&#58;//this.com/flash/this_blank_player.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="178" height="400" name="blank_player_fullsize" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="always" wmode="transparent" flashvars="type=undefined&player_id=undefined&id=undefined&play_first=recent&auto_play=false&color1=65331&color2=7796080&color3=16750848&color4=16777215&color5=16777215&color6=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http&#58;//www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed>

I have been able to get the player itself to load with a

on (release) {
	loadMovie("http://this.com/flash/this_blank_player.swf", _root.movie1);
}

but i can not get the content that is supposed to load into that player along with that. can someone please help me? i am still learning this whole thing. is this possible?

[NTD]

Hi,

Are the different sites all yours? Flash has strict security in place about cross domain loading. Each site will need an XML cross domain policy file to allow other sites to load content from their server. Also, you will need to take into account path issues. A movie that is loaded into another movie is no longer on the _root timeline so any _root references in the movie will not work. There is a workaround with the lockroot method, but understanding paths is a big benefit. Example.......... movie B loaded into a movieclip in Movie A named "HolderMC". Say Movie B loads content into another movieclip named "content". The path to that clip in Movie B without being loaded would be...

_root.content.

Once it is loaded into Movie A, the path to that MC changes to...

_root.holderMC.content

The paths can be adapted in the movie to be loaded or, look into the lockroot method to keep the _root timeline of the loaded movies available to itself.

_root.loadMovie("someMovie.swf")

[NTD]

Hi
Ok im trying to load a premade audio player. I know it would be easier to just make my own and put it in, but i was just wondering if it would work. The thing i am trying to load has 4 audio clips and its built from a site that lets you "create" small players and embed them into a blog or something. I want to take the 'players' and load all of them into a new flash movie where you can select which one to view. I dont know if that can work or if i really just need to start and design all my own players. There are also outputs from photobucket.com that i was wondering if they could be placed into flash. I dont really know if this helps the understanding at all or really if it can be done. but thank you for your help.

It would be much easier to construct and use your own. Sound players in Flash are pretty easy to construct. The sound object is designed specifically for loading external .mp3 files. The basics...

mySound=new Sound(this);
mySound.loadSound("someFile.mp3",true);

The second parameter of the loadSound method determines whether the sound loads as event sound(must load entirely before playing) or streamed sound(plays after enough of the file has progressivly downloaded). The methods for creating player controls are described pretty well in the help files, but here is a resource site for the sound object that is pretty in depth and covers most any questions you might have about sound objects or creating sound players with Flash...

http://www.kennybellew.com/tutorial/

[karatekid2point0]

ok thanks i ended up just doing my own player.