Urgent: Online files accessing local files Issue

[Gunjan Gupta]

Hi..



We are working on a online project where we have some 600 MB videos.



The complete project is made using flash & HTML.



Objective: To access few flash files from a CD ROM where the rest of the
files are online. (So that the user doesn't have to wait for these video to
download from server)



Method: Autostart the CD ROM with some initial file(start.html) which
retrieves the users CD ROM path. Then the page is redirected to the website
page (FlashHolder.html) passes the path along with the URL. This
FlashHolder.html page then tries to load the video from the file location it
has received as part of the URL.



The issue: This works perfectly file till Flash 7, but with introduction of
flash 8 this is not working. Kindly let me know if there is a way to access
locally placed flash files from web server in flash 8.




I dont mind looking at a solution beyond flash using HTML, Javascript or any
server side technology.



I am located at Mumbai, India. Feel free to contact me at 91-9820189256 or
at [email]gungupta@hotmail.com[/email]



Regards,

Gunjan

[Gunjan Gupta]

Hi..



We are working on a online project where we have some 600 MB videos.



The complete project is made using flash & HTML.



Objective: To access few flash files from a CD ROM where the rest of the
files are online. (So that the user doesn't have to wait for these video to
download from server)



Method: Autostart the CD ROM with some initial file(start.html) which
retrieves the users CD ROM path. Then the page is redirected to the website
page (FlashHolder.html) passes the path along with the URL. This
FlashHolder.html page then tries to load the video from the file location it
has received as part of the URL.



The issue: This works perfectly file till Flash 7, but with introduction of
flash 8 this is not working. Kindly let me know if there is a way to access
locally placed flash files from web server in flash 8.




I dont mind looking at a solution beyond flash using HTML, Javascript or any
server side technology.



I am located at Mumbai, India. Feel free to contact me at 91-9820189256 or
at [email]gungupta@hotmail.com[/email]



Regards,

Gunjan

[Motion Maker]

Seems like a possible security sandbox problem. See:
[url]http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/fplayer8_security.html[/url]

--
Lon Hosford
[url]www.lonhosford.com[/url]
Flash, Actionscript and Flash Media Server examples:
[url]http://flashexamples.hosfordusa.com[/url]
May many happy bits flow your way!
"Gunjan Gupta" <gungupta@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:e5j5i7$ec1$1@forums.macromedia.com...
Hi..



We are working on a online project where we have some 600 MB videos.



The complete project is made using flash & HTML.



Objective: To access few flash files from a CD ROM where the rest of the
files are online. (So that the user doesn't have to wait for these video to
download from server)



Method: Autostart the CD ROM with some initial file(start.html) which
retrieves the users CD ROM path. Then the page is redirected to the website
page (FlashHolder.html) passes the path along with the URL. This
FlashHolder.html page then tries to load the video from the file location it
has received as part of the URL.



The issue: This works perfectly file till Flash 7, but with introduction of
flash 8 this is not working. Kindly let me know if there is a way to access
locally placed flash files from web server in flash 8.




I dont mind looking at a solution beyond flash using HTML, Javascript or any
server side technology.



I am located at Mumbai, India. Feel free to contact me at 91-9820189256 or
at [email]gungupta@hotmail.com[/email]



Regards,

Gunjan

[Motion Maker]

Seems like a possible security sandbox problem. See:
[url]http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/fplayer8_security.html[/url]

--
Lon Hosford
[url]www.lonhosford.com[/url]
Flash, Actionscript and Flash Media Server examples:
[url]http://flashexamples.hosfordusa.com[/url]
May many happy bits flow your way!
"Gunjan Gupta" <gungupta@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:e5j5i7$ec1$1@forums.macromedia.com...
Hi..



We are working on a online project where we have some 600 MB videos.



The complete project is made using flash & HTML.



Objective: To access few flash files from a CD ROM where the rest of the
files are online. (So that the user doesn't have to wait for these video to
download from server)



Method: Autostart the CD ROM with some initial file(start.html) which
retrieves the users CD ROM path. Then the page is redirected to the website
page (FlashHolder.html) passes the path along with the URL. This
FlashHolder.html page then tries to load the video from the file location it
has received as part of the URL.



The issue: This works perfectly file till Flash 7, but with introduction of
flash 8 this is not working. Kindly let me know if there is a way to access
locally placed flash files from web server in flash 8.




I dont mind looking at a solution beyond flash using HTML, Javascript or any
server side technology.



I am located at Mumbai, India. Feel free to contact me at 91-9820189256 or
at [email]gungupta@hotmail.com[/email]



Regards,

Gunjan