[Pauline M]

Ciao,

I'm having a problem with an mc created with attachMovie. The mc has an instance of FLVPlayback in it that is not displaying the flv movie assigned dynamically to it's contentPath property.

After using attachMovie, apparently the FLVPlayback's contentPath property is assigned correctly, but it's not displaying the flv.

When I was using an instance of the movie clip that is already on the stage I could assign contentPath without a problem and the video displays.

I'm working with XML and custom classes so I'll only show a few code snippets. Here's the code that works fine using an instance already on the stage:

Code:

this.mainTimeline.videoActivity.playback.contentPath = mediaActivity.getMediaFileURL() ;

(playback is the name of the FLVPlayback instance. mediaActivity.getMediaFileURL() returns the flv that gets played no problem.)

Here's the part that's not working, when I attach the movie clip. It looks like this (done within a loop):

Code:

var videoClip:MovieClip = mainTimeline.attachMovie( "VideoCaseHistory" , MCName,  (i + 10) ) ;
videoClip.playback.contentPath = mediaActivity.getMediaFileURL() ;

This works fine to create the movie clip and all it's parts, at least visually. A button can access the movie clip to change it's position no problem. But the video is not displaying.

While debugging, I did a for-in loop to check and see if I could find the nested component and it's properties. It finds the FLVPlayback instance fine and it finds it's contentPath property. The contentPath even shows the right value for the flv, but it's not displaying.

Is there something I'm missing, big DOH!, or something strange about using the FLVPlayback instance in connection with attachMovie?

Any tips are greatly appreciated,
Pauline