How to embed Flash video player with sound muted by default and loop

@tagit - That confuses me I'm afraid. Where would I put this code? Maybe if I explain how I'm doing this it would help.

In Flash CS3 I'm creating a new Flash File (ActionScript 3.0)

Under components I select "Video" --> FLVPlayback and put an instance of that on the stage

With that selected, under "Parameters"  - I keep all the defaults, and enter the path to my external flv file on the "source" line

Under Components-->Video - I select the MuteButton and drag it to the stage, onto the FLVPlayback screen.

From here, I can export the player and I've got the UI I want, except that the mute button, by default, is off (sound plays along with the video).   What I need to do is set it so that by default, sound is muted - and a user can hit the Mute button to enable the sound.  

Does your code above accomplish this, using the MuteButton component and displaying only it to the user (I don't want to include a volume bar - I was doing so only because I could not figure out how to mute the sound by default).

sorry i hate to confuse things...

Set an instance name for your FLVComponent something like my_flv.

then in the same keyframe that you have your component have the following code:

// mute the sound initially
my_flv.volume = 0;

When you say FLVComponent - do you mean the FLVPlayback or the MuteButton? They are both components.

And where would the script be placed? When I select either of the two components, and bring up the "Actions" window to place the script in there - there's a message saying "Current selection cannot have actions applied to it"

Sorry, I'm sure this is really basic and it's really eluding me. I've not done anything with Flash video in over a year - and then it was very minimal as well.  

sorry the FLVPlayback.

and for the actions, don't click on any movies or components just click the stage then go to the actions window and add the code

With that solution, I will need to add a volume slider so that users can turn up the volume (I added the instance, the code, and without the volume slider, there was no sound throughout the entire video).  I had already done this, using the components and setting the FLVPlayback's volume parameter to 1 (see my first post). However, I don't want to include a volume slider. I want to only include a mute button.  

By default, the MuteButton component loads the MuteButtonOn symbol - the actions associated with it are:

stop();
this.upLinkageID = "MuteButtonOnNormal";
this.overLinkageID = "MuteButtonOnOver";
this.downLinkageID = "MuteButtonOnDown";
this.disabledLinkageID = "MuteButtonOnDisabled";

There are no other actions associated with the other symbols in the MuteButton component (including all the "Off" symbols).

So what I need, is to have the MuteButton component, but instead of it's default rendering with sound enabled, I need the "MuteButtonOffNormal" to display and have the default be no sound, until this button is clicked, enabling the MuteButtonOn symbol, and sound with it.  

when the user clicks the MuteButton the volumeUpdate event is raised so you can capture this with code to set the volume

var listenerObject:Object = new Object();
listenerObject.volumeUpdate = function(eventObject:Object):Void {
    trace("Volume setting is: " + eventObject.volume);
    // if the volume is muted then enable it for the user, otherwise mute
    if (eventObject.volume == 0) {
        eventObject.volume = 100;
    }
    else {
        eventObject.volume = 0;
    }
};
my_flv.addEventListener("volumeUpdate", listenerObject);
                                              

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So on the stage, in the actions window I have:

// mute the sound initially
my_flv.volume = 0;

Where does the code you have above go? And how does this affect the toggling and display of the mute button?

the code above would go in the same place ie in the stage action window.  the mute button should visually toggle automatically

Is there anyway you could upload a sample file that does what I'm describing? Adding that code into the actions pane for the stage causes the file to just flicker the Flash icon over and over and over - it never loads the player or the video (when I attempt to test the movie). Conversely, I could upload my project file - if you think that would help.

Thanks!

prob better if you upload your project file if you don't mind?

Thanks for sticking with me on this tagit. Project file is here: http://www.ee-stuff.com/Expert/Upload/getFile.php?fid=6671

sorry are you able to save as Flash 8

Ah. Perhaps this is why your solutions were not working for me. I get this error when trying to play a saved as Flash 8 file -

WARNING: The component 'fl.video.FLVPlayback' requires ActionScript 3.0.

I'm not sure what I upload will be of any use to you - it seems Flash 8 does not have the FLVPlayback component??

New file is here: http://www.ee-stuff.com/Expert/Upload/getFile.php?fid=6673

Thanks!

Flash 8 has a FLVPlayback component as well.  and i'm experiencing the same problem as you :)

I've found this on another website: http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=193603

my_flv.volume = 0;
my_flv._uiMgr._isMuted = true;

it seems that there is no direct method to call to mute the control

I found that code, and tried it - but it did not work for me. Will that only work with Flash 8? Did you try that in the file I sent to you and it work?

i've tried a different way by just adding the MuteButton component and setting the muteButton property of the FLVPlayback to an instance of this component.  Then by capturing the onRelease event of that clip you can set the volume to 100 or 0.  haven't got the skin to change yet though but i'll let you know when i do, very close... :)

@tagit - any luck yet?

sorry i haven't got back to you sooner... i'm glad that works for you.  i was still stumped on changing the skin of the mutebutton to show that the sound has been muted even though you can't hear anything.  the mutebutton worked (would turn the sound on & off and also start with the sound off) but didn't change to indicate it's state.